Validity and Reliability of The Persian Version of Uterine Fibroid Symptom and Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire: A Psychometric Study.

Autor:	Najafiarab H; Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Keyvanfar A; Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Rahimi Mansour F; 1. Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran., Didar H; Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Hooshmand Chayijan SH; Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Rajaei Firouzabadi SH; School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Hosseini MS; Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Bakhtiyari Z; Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran., Farzaneh F; Preventative Gynecology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Email: pgrc@sbmu.ac.ir.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	International journal of fertility & sterility [Int J Fertil Steril] 2023 Nov 07; Vol. 18 (1), pp. 60-66. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Nov 07.
DOI:	10.22074/ijfs.2023.1988864.1431
Abstrakt:	Background: Women with uterine fibroids (UFs) experience many clinical manifestations that affect their quality of life (QOL). The Uterine Fibroid Symptom and Health-related Quality of Life (UFS-QOL) questionnaire is an English instrument specifically designed to assess fibroid-related symptoms and their impact on QOL. This study aims to investigate the reliability and validity of the Persian version of the UFS-QOL questionnaire in Iranian women with UF. Materials and Methods: In this psychometric study, women with UFs who presented to Imam Hossein Hospital (Tehran, Iran) between August 2022 and January 2023 were enrolled in this study. A forward-backward approach was applied to translate the UFS-QOL questionnaire into Persian. The reliability of the UFS-QOL questionnaire was assessed by internal consistency and test-retest correlation. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess convergent validity between items and subscales of the UFS-QOL questionnaire. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to assess convergence validity between subscales of the UFS-QOL and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief Version 26 questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF-26). Results: Overall, we assessed 226 women with UFs. All subscales of the UFS-QOL questionnaire had acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha>0.7). Test-retest analysis indicated significant positive correlations between two measurements of all subscales of the UFS-QOL questionnaire: symptom severity (P<0.001), concern (P<0.001), activities (P<0.001), energy/mood (P<0.001), control (P<0.001), self-consciousness (P=0.002), and sexual function (P<0.001). The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure value was 0.920, and the result of Bartlett's test of sphericity was significant (P<0.001). CFA identified six factors for the health-related QOL (HRQL) questionnaire, which explained 73.827% of the total variation. Most subscales of the UFS-QOL questionnaire correlated with domains of the WHOQOL-BREF-26 questionnaire (P<0.05). Conclusion: The Persian version of the UFS-QOL questionnaire is a valid and reliable instrument to evaluate UFrelated symptoms and QOL among Iranian women.
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