Self-reporting on foot health status in children

Background Clinicians involved in the management of children with chronic conditions are encouraged to utilise self-report outcome measures to inform clinical management and ensure patient preferences are considered throughout care provision. The use of self-report measures in the paediatric patient is not without challenges and alternative parent/proxy responders are often considered more appropriate. Despite this, the validity of parent/proxy responders reporting on behalf of children can be challenged and further work evaluating concordance between children and parents/proxy raters is needed. Through use of a foot-specific patient reported outcome measure in girls with Turner syndrome, the aim of this study was to measure agreement between children and parent/proxy responders for self-reporting on foot health.