Elementary School Children

نویسنده

  • David Gerchak
چکیده

Quality of life (QOL) factors have become an area of emphasis for health care and particularly for optometry. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development designed a 30-item checklist (COVDQOL-30). This was later reduced to 19 items (COVD-QOL-19). The two instruments have been shown to have good testretest reliabilities and both have been demonstrated to have validity. The reliability of both tools was demonstrated on a group of young adult subjects. The present study was undertaken to investigate if the reliability of the COVD-QOL-19 would approach an acceptable 80% with a younger sample of subjects. A total of 131 3rd and 4th grade students completed the COVD-QOL-19 on two different occasions, separated by two weeks. Parametric and non-parametric comparisons were made for the two data sets. Test-retest reliability approached 80% acceptability. Four questions were found to have been answered significantly differently on retest. Language and vocabulary are hypothesized to be a problem in the test retest reliability. Recommendations are made for modifying the COVD-QOL-19 to make it more “user-friendly” for elementary school children.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007