Development and validation of the impact of dry eye on everyday life (IDEEL) questionnaire, a patient-reported outcomes (PRO) measure for the assessment of the burden of dry eye on patients

Autor: Polyxane Mertzanis, Rod Barnes, Carolyn G. Begley, Krithika Rajagopalan, Robin L. Chalmers, Linda Abetz
Rok vydání: 2011
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Self Disclosure
Psychometrics
genetic structures
Sjögren's Syndrome
Dry eye
Dry Eye Syndromes
Pilot Projects
treatment satisfaction
patient-reported outcome
lcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
non-Sjögren's keratoconjunctivitis sicca
Quality of life (healthcare)
Surveys and Questionnaires
Humans
Medicine
Everyday life
Aged
Quality of Life Research
Aged
80 and over

Health related quality of life
Principal Component Analysis
business.industry
Research
questionnaire
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health

Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Focus Groups
Middle Aged
eye diseases
health-related quality of life
Case-Control Studies
Quality of Life
impact
Physical therapy
Self-disclosure
symptoms
lcsh:R858-859.7
Female
Patient-reported outcome
business
Zdroj: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Vol 9, Iss 1, p 111 (2011)
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
ISSN: 1477-7525
Popis: Objective To develop and validate a comprehensive patient-reported outcomes instrument focusing on the impact of dry eye on everyday life (IDEEL). Methods Development and validation of the IDEEL occurred in four phases: 1) focus groups with 45 dry eye patients to develop a draft instrument, 2) item generation, 3) pilot study to assess content validity in 16 patients and 4) psychometric validation in 210 subjects: 130 with non-Sjögren's keratoconjunctivitis sicca, 32 with Sjögren's syndrome and 48 controls, and subsequent item reduction. Results Focus groups identified symptoms and the associated bother, the impact of dry eye on daily life and the patients' satisfaction with their treatment as the central concepts in patients' experience of dry eye. Qualitative analysis indicated that saturation was achieved for these concepts and yielded an initial 112-item draft instrument. Patients understood the questionnaire and found the items to be relevant indicating content validity. Patient input, item descriptive statistics and factor analysis identified 55 items that could be deleted. The final 57-item IDEEL assesses dry eye impact constituting 3 modules: dry eye symptom-bother, dry eye impact on daily life comprising impact on daily activities, emotional impact, impact on work, and dry eye treatment satisfaction comprising satisfaction with treatment effectiveness and treatment-related bother/inconvenience. The psychometric analysis results indicated that the IDEEL met the criteria for item discriminant validity, internal consistency reliability, test-retest reliability and floor/ceiling effects. As expected, the correlations between IDEEL and the Dry Eye Questionnaire (a habitual symptom questionnaire) were higher than between IDEEL and Short-Form-36 and EuroQoL-5D, indicating concurrent validity. Conclusion The IDEEL is a reliable, valid and comprehensive questionnaire relevant to issues that are specific to dry eye patients, and meets current FDA patient-reported outcomes guidelines. The use of this questionnaire will provide assessment of the impact of dry eye on patient dry eye-related quality of life, impact of treatment on patient outcomes in clinical trials, and may aid in treatment effectiveness evaluation.
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