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2. Italian validation of the urogenital distress inventory and its application in LUTS patients
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Domenico Prezioso, Andrea Tubaro, Walter Artibani, Ambra M. Santini, Filiberto Zattoni, C.A. Rizzi, Lucia Simoni, Roberto Mario Scarpa, Francesco Pesce, Prezioso, Domenico, Artibani, W, Pesce, F, Scarpa, Rm, Zattoni, F, Tubaro, A, Rizzi, Ca, Santini, Am, Simoni, L, and THE FLOW STUDY, Group
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Urology ,Urinary incontinence ,bother ,female luts ,quality of life ,validation ,Linguistic validation ,Severity of Illness Index ,Quality of life ,Cronbach's alpha ,Lower urinary tract symptoms ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Terminology as Topic ,medicine ,Humans ,Retrospective Studies ,Gynecology ,Bed-wetting ,business.industry ,Gold standard ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Distress ,Urodynamics ,Urinary Incontinence ,Italy ,Physical therapy ,Quality of Life ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
Objectives The objective of this study was to validate the Italian version of the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI) in a sample of women with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Methods The linguistic validation of the questionnaire was performed through a multistep process: backward and forward translations coordinated by clinical investigators, followed by a pretest. The final version was administered to a larger sample of female patients, aged 18 years or older who had been having LUTS for at least 3 months, numbering 53 subjects. To evaluate test-retest reliability, patients were re-rated after 1 week. To test the questionnaire's capacity to discriminate women with or without LUTS (cases and controls, respectively), a sample of 53 healthy women was enrolled. A 72-h voiding diary was used as a gold standard and compared with the UDI. Results The correlation coefficient between ratings was ≥0.80, and the discriminant power between cases and controls was confirmed. The UDI showed good internal consistency for all domains, except irritative symptoms (total score's Cronbach alpha=0.86). Factor analytic structure revealed urinary incontinence to be opposite to the other urologic symptoms, with bed wetting being loaded separately. The average daily number of urgent micturitions was higher in patients who reported they "experience a strong feeling of urgency to empty bladder" in the UDI than those ones who did not ( p Conclusions The Italian version of the UDI is a valid and robust instrument, which can now be used reliably in daily practice and clinical research.
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3. Italian validation of the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaires
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Ambra M. Santini, Domenico Prezioso, Andrea Tubaro, Roberto Mario Scarpa, Walter Artibani, C.A. Rizzi, Lucia Simoni, Francesco Pesce, Filiberto Zattoni, Prezioso, Domenico, Tubaro, A, Zattoni, F, Scarpa, Rm, Pesce, F, Rizzi, Ca, Santini, Am, Simoni, L, Artibani, W, and FLOW STUDY, Group
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Psychometrics ,Urology ,Pilot Projects ,Urinary incontinence ,Cohort Studies ,Quality of life ,Cronbach's alpha ,Lower urinary tract symptoms ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Humans ,Medicine ,Aged ,Gynecology ,Analysis of Variance ,Urinary symptoms ,business.industry ,Reproducibility of Results ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Test (assessment) ,Urinary Incontinence ,Italy ,Case-Control Studies ,Quality of Life ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Clinical psychology ,Cohort study - Abstract
OBJECTIVE To validate the Italian version of two questionnaires for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), i.e. the long (LF) and the short form (SF) of the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ). METHODS Two native Italian speakers and a native English speaker collaborated with clinical investigators through a multistep process to obtain a consensus version of the questionnaires. The resulting Italian versions were then pre-tested during a pilot study on 16 women for the LF and 10 for the SF. The final versions of the ICIQ-LF and ICIQ-SF were administered to two samples of consecutive female patients, aged ≥ 18 years, who had been having LUTS for ≥ 3 months, with respectively 82 and 50 women. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were then assessed; to evaluate the latter, a subset of patients (25 for the ICIQ-LF and 42 for ICIQ-SF) was re-rated. To test the capacity of the questionnaires to discriminate women with or without LUTS (respectively cases and controls), a sample of healthy women was also enrolled and assessed. RESULTS Both scales showed good psychometric properties overall. The correlation coefficient between ratings was > 0.75 in both questionnaires, and the discriminant power between cases and controls was confirmed for both scales. The ICIQ-SF showed good internal consistency for the total score (Cronbach's α 0.90). The sections of the ICIQ-LF ‘impact of incontinence on everyday life’, ‘emotional aspects’, ‘urinary symptoms’ and the degree of bother seemed to be internally consistent (Cronbach's α > 0.70); there was a weak relationship for items related to ‘sexual matters’ (Cronbach's α 0.38). CONCLUSION The Italian version of both questionnaires is a valid and robust instrument which can now be used reliably both in daily practice and in clinical research.
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