Evaluating Quality of Life in Children With Cancer Using Children's Self-Reports and Parent-Proxy Reports

Abstract

The predictors of agreement between patients' reports and parent-proxy reports, including the passage of time (from baseline to 6-month follow up), gender, age, and illness severity, have not been conclusively determined. Further studies are needed to examine patient-proxy agreement during a longer follow up period at more than two points in time and using the same patients through the stages of confirmation of diagnosis, acceptance of diagnosis, treatment, and after treatment.