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Published on: June 20, 2020
Preference-based measure of social participation from the Handicap Scale for Children
Paula van Dommelen1, Annemarie Schuller, Symone Detmar
1TNO Quality of Life, Prevention and Care, PO Box 2215, 2301 CE, Leiden, The Netherlands. paula.vandommelen@tno.nl.
Objective:
To establish a model that estimates a preference-based measure (valuation) of social participation for children between 8 and 18 years of age from the Handicap Scale for Children (HSC), a validated questionnaire for children with a chronic illness.
Methods:
Vignettes of the HSC classification system were valued by a representative sample of 249 persons aged 18 years onwards. Linear and nominal scale (mixed-effects) models were used to analyze the valuations of the vignettes.
Results:
We established a model that performed better than a model that simply sums up the levels of each dimension.
Conclusion:
We obtained a measure that can be used for assessing need, for quality assurance and for evaluating interventions on a group level aiming to increase social participation in children with chronic illnesses.
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