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Using Rasch and factor analysis to develop a Proxy-Reported health state classification (descriptive) system for Cerebral Palsy.

Mina BahrampourMartin J DownesRoslyn Nancy BoydPaul A ScuffhamJoshua M Byrnes
Published in: Disability and rehabilitation (2020)
The combination of Factor and Rasch analysis along with consultation with patients, clinicians and experts in health-related quality-of-life instrument development, has resulted in a short version of the Cerebral Palsy quality of life instrument.IMPLICATION FOR REHABILITATIONThis study provides the first classification system for children with Cerebral Palsy.The Cerebral Palsy-six dimension (CP-6D) survey, which is a short version of Cerebral Palsy Quality Of Life instrument, can be timesaving when measuring quality of life in children with Cerebral Palsy.The short version (CP-6D) can be used in preference based measurement and generate quality adjusted life years for children with Cerebral Palsy.
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