TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of the Spanish-language version of the Prolapse Quality of Life Questionnaire in Chilean women
AU - Flores-Espinoza, Claudia
AU - Araya, Alejandra Ximena
AU - Pizarro-Berdichevsky, Javier
AU - Santos, Vera
AU - Ferrer, Montserrat
AU - Garin, Olatz
AU - Swift, Steven
AU - Digesu, Alessandro G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, The International Urogynecological Association.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Introduction and hypothesis: The Prolapse Quality of Life (P-QOL) questionnaire is a specific health-related quality of life (HRQL) instrument to assess the impact of POP on women. It has been validated in English-speaking women and to date has been translated into several other languages. However, currently there is no Spanish translation of the P-QOL questionnaire. The aim of this study was to translate the P-QOL questionnaire into Spanish and to assess its feasibility, validity, and reliability.Methods: Following a forward- and back-translation of the original English P-QOL questionnaire into Spanish language, the translated questionnaire was reviewed by a group of patients as well as an expert panel to assess its comprehensibility. In this cross-sectional study women with POP symptoms were recruited from a tertiary referral teaching hospital. Women were defined as symptomatic if they report feeling a lump/bulge/pressure in the vagina. The Spanish translated P-QOL questionnaire was self-administered to all women. Reliability, content, and construct validity were evaluated using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, ANOVA, and Spearman’s correlation tests.Results: One hundred and twenty-eight women were studied. There were no missing items. The Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.626 to 0.866 across domains, demonstrating the good reliability of the Spanish P-QOL. The severity of symptoms was related to the worst quality of life, but the severity of POP was not related to poorer QoL.Conclusions: The Spanish translated version of the P-QOL is a reliable, consistent and valid instrument to assess symptom severity and QoL impact in Chilean women with POP.
AB - Introduction and hypothesis: The Prolapse Quality of Life (P-QOL) questionnaire is a specific health-related quality of life (HRQL) instrument to assess the impact of POP on women. It has been validated in English-speaking women and to date has been translated into several other languages. However, currently there is no Spanish translation of the P-QOL questionnaire. The aim of this study was to translate the P-QOL questionnaire into Spanish and to assess its feasibility, validity, and reliability.Methods: Following a forward- and back-translation of the original English P-QOL questionnaire into Spanish language, the translated questionnaire was reviewed by a group of patients as well as an expert panel to assess its comprehensibility. In this cross-sectional study women with POP symptoms were recruited from a tertiary referral teaching hospital. Women were defined as symptomatic if they report feeling a lump/bulge/pressure in the vagina. The Spanish translated P-QOL questionnaire was self-administered to all women. Reliability, content, and construct validity were evaluated using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, ANOVA, and Spearman’s correlation tests.Results: One hundred and twenty-eight women were studied. There were no missing items. The Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.626 to 0.866 across domains, demonstrating the good reliability of the Spanish P-QOL. The severity of symptoms was related to the worst quality of life, but the severity of POP was not related to poorer QoL.Conclusions: The Spanish translated version of the P-QOL is a reliable, consistent and valid instrument to assess symptom severity and QoL impact in Chilean women with POP.
KW - Pelvic organ prolapse
KW - Quality of life
KW - Questionnaire
KW - Reliability
KW - Validity
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U2 - 10.1007/s00192-014-2484-9
DO - 10.1007/s00192-014-2484-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 25224147
AN - SCOPUS:84920547105
SN - 0937-3462
VL - 26
SP - 123
EP - 130
JO - International Urogynecology Journal
JF - International Urogynecology Journal
IS - 1
ER -