Dyspnea-12-Arabic: Testing of an instrument to measure breathlessness in Arabic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
| Autor: | Janelle Yorke, Ekhlas Al-Gamal, Mohammed Khair E. A. Al-Shwaiyat |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Arabic Pulmonary disease Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Young Adult Cronbach's alpha Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Translations Reliability (statistics) Aged Aged 80 and over COPD Jordan business.industry Reproducibility of Results Construct validity Middle Aged medicine.disease language.human_language Test (assessment) Dyspnea Quality of Life language Physical therapy Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Heart & Lung. 43:244-248 |
| ISSN: | 0147-9563 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2014.02.003 |
| Popis: | Objective The aim of this study was to develop the Dyspnoea-12-Arabic (D-12-A) questionnaire and test its reliability and validity for the assessment of breathlessness in Arabic speaking patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Jordan. Background Breathlessness is a complex multidimensional symptom which incorporates physiology and psychology. Methods The D-12-A, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Quality of Life Index pulmonary version (QLI-P) were completed by 67 Jordanian patients with COPD. Cronbach alpha was used to assess internal consistency, and Pearson product–moment correlation calculated for construct validity. Results The D-12-A and its sub-components (‘physical’ and ‘affective’) demonstrated excellent internal reliability (Cronbach alpha range from 0.88 to 0.91). D-12-A scores correlated significantly with other relevant outcome measures and demonstrated good construct validity. Conclusions The D-12-A should provide clinicians and researchers with a useful tool for the assessment of breathlessness in Arabic speaking patients with COPD. |
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