Reliability and validity of a Spanish version of the Impact of Pediatric Epilepsy Scale in a Cuban population

•The Impact of Pediatric Epilepsy Scale (IPES) is validated in a Spanish version.•The IPES can be used in clinical care and research.•Brief scale in Spanish has been validated in Cuban children with epilepsy.•The IPES taps components of the impact of epilepsy for children and their families.

The Impact of Pediatric Epilepsy Scale (IPES) is a brief, accurate, and acceptable measurement scale of the impact of pediatric epilepsy on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of both the child and the child's family as perceived by the child's parent(s). The aim of this study was to validate a Spanish language version of the IPES in Cuban children with epilepsy. The IPES was translated and adapted to Cuban culture and administered to 76 parents of children with epilepsy. The principal component analysis indicated that two factors accounted for 72% of the variance of the IPES (family relationships and health and social well-being). The IPES was also able to detect differences in HRQOL between subjects according to epilepsy severity. The internal consistency coefficient was 0.962, and the test–retest reliability was 0.979. The Cuban version of IPES can be used to measure a child's epilepsy-specific HRQOL in Cuba.