[Validation of the St George's questionnaire for measuring the quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].
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Date publication
janvier 1996
Journal
Revue des maladies respiratoires
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr BRIANCON Serge, Pr GUILLEMIN Francis
Tous les auteurs :
Bouchet C, Guillemin F, Hoang Thi TH, Cornette A, Briançon S
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Résumé
The validity of a French version of a disease specific quality of life instrument, the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire, has been assessed in a sample of 64 patients with chronic respiratory disease undergoing oxygen therapy. The studied properties were internal consistency, test-retest reproducibility and criterion validity. The St George's showed a good internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha coefficients from 0.61 to 0.95 and a good reproducibility with Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) from 0.67 to 0.95. High correlation with dyspnea (p=0.0004 to 0.01) showed a correct criterion validity. So psychometric properties of the French version of the questionnaire are good. However, its administration caused a few problems, and we advice it to be administered by a trained interviewer in such patients.
Mots clés
Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Dyspnea, etiology, Female, France, Humans, Lung Diseases, Obstructive, complications, Male, Middle Aged, Psychometrics, Quality of Life, Reproducibility of Results, Surveys and Questionnaires, standards
Référence
Rev Mal Respir. 1996 ;13(1):43-6