Responsiveness of the Endometriosis Health Profile-30 questionnaire in a Swedish sample: an observational study
| Autor: | Greta Edelstam, Karin Wickström, Jack Spira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Endometriosis Sample (statistics) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Health profile Prospective Studies Stable group Anesthetics Local skin and connective tissue diseases Sweden Core (anatomy) 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Outcome measures Obstetrics and Gynecology Lidocaine Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged medicine.disease Reproductive Medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Physical therapy Quality of Life Observational study Female sense organs business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical and experimental obstetricsgynecology. 44(3) |
| ISSN: | 0390-6663 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate the responsiveness of the Endometriosis Health Profile-30 (EHP-30) questionnaire in a Swedish sample. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-two patients with endometriosis were included in a prospective observational study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The changes on the EHP-30 questionnaire after pertubation treatment were compared with the patients' self-estimated change in pain intensity. The responsiveness to change was evaluated with effect sizes and significance of change (paired t-test). The changes in scores between those who improved / not improved were compared with independent t-test. RESULTS The changes in the scores were significant for all dimensions on the core questionnaire (p = 0.04-0.0002) for improved patients in contrast to the patients in the stable group where there were no significant changes in any dimension (p = 0.16-0.63). The effect sizes were large (> 0.8) on all core scales except for self-image (0.51) for the improved patients and small on all scales in the non-improved (stable) group (- 0.17-0.35). There were significant differences between the improved and the stable group considering change in most of the core EHP-30 scores. CONCLUSIONS The EHP-30 is responsive to improvement on all core scales and is acceptable, understandable, and applicable in this Swedish sample. |
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