PMID- 16487664
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060629
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0305-4179 (Print)
IS  - 0305-4179 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 3
DP  - 2006 May
TI  - Reliability and validity of the Health Outcomes Burn Questionnaire for infants 
      and children in The Netherlands.
PG  - 357-65
AB  - The Health Outcomes Burn Questionnaire (HOBQ) is a self-administered 
      questionnaire to monitor outcome after burns in young children. This study aimed 
      to assess feasibility, reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the HOBQ. 
      The HOBQ was adapted into Dutch and tested in a population of children aged 0-4 
      years with a primary admission to a Dutch burn centre in March 2001-February 
      2004. Parents of 413 children were sent a questionnaire. To assess validity, a 
      generic outcome instrument was included, the Infant Toddler Quality of Life 
      Questionnaire (ITQOL). The response rate was 50.0% (n=196). Mean self-reported 
      completion time was 16.7 min. The internal consistency of all the HOBQ-scales was 
      good (Cronbach's alpha's>0.69). Test-retest results showed no differences in 7 
      out of 10 scales. High correlations between HOBQ-scales and conceptually 
      equivalent ITQOL and scales were found in 5 out of 7 comparisons. The majority of 
      the HOBQ-scales (7 out of 10) showed significant differences in the expected 
      direction between children with a long versus short length of stay. Our data 
      support the reliability and validity of the Dutch HOBQ. The HOBQ can be used as a 
      research tool, to monitor functional outcome after burns in young children. 
      Further research in other samples is recommend to fully establish the reliability 
      and validity of the HOBQ.
FAU - van Baar, M E
AU  - van Baar ME
AD  - Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The 
      Netherlands. M.E.vanBaar@umcutrecht.nl
FAU - Essink-Bot, M L
AU  - Essink-Bot ML
FAU - Oen, I M M H
AU  - Oen IM
FAU - Dokter, J
AU  - Dokter J
FAU - Boxma, H
AU  - Boxma H
FAU - Hinson, M I
AU  - Hinson MI
FAU - van Loey, N E E
AU  - van Loey NE
FAU - Faber, A W
AU  - Faber AW
FAU - van Beeck, E F
AU  - van Beeck EF
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20060217
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Burns
JT  - Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
JID - 8913178
SB  - IM
MH  - Burns/*rehabilitation
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Feasibility Studies
MH  - *Health Status Indicators
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Netherlands
MH  - *Outcome Assessment, Health Care
MH  - *Quality of Life
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires/*standards
EDAT- 2006/02/21 09:00
MHDA- 2006/06/30 09:00
CRDT- 2006/02/21 09:00
PHST- 2005/05/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2005/10/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2006/02/21 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/06/30 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/02/21 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0305-4179(05)00289-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.burns.2005.10.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Burns. 2006 May;32(3):357-65. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2005.10.004. Epub 2006 Feb 17.