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Evaluation of the effect of urethroplasty for anterior urethral strictures by a validated disease-specific patient-reported outcome measure

World Journal of Urology volume 37, pages 601–606 (2019)Cite this article

Abstract

Purpose

To better understand our urethroplasty outcome, we translated the English version of a urethral stricture surgery patient-reported outcome measure (USS-PROM) into Japanese and used it to evaluate the effect of urethroplasty for anterior urethral strictures.

Methods

The PROM quantifies lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and health-related quality of life (EQ-5D), and it evaluates overall satisfaction by asking patients to choose “very satisfied”, “satisfied”, “unsatisfied”, or “very unsatisfied”. 93 Japanese-speaking male patients with anterior urethral stricture who underwent urethroplasty completed it before (baseline) and 6 months after urethroplasty. The psychometric criteria evaluated in the present study were the PROM’s internal consistency, test–retest reliability, criterion validity, and responsiveness.

Results

Qmax was negatively correlated with the LUTS-total scores (r = − 0.61). Cronbach’s alpha was 0.80 and the test–retest intraclass correlation coefficient for the LUTS-total score was 0.82. 83 patients (89.2%) achieved stricture-free, which was defined as no re-stricture on cystoscopy and no need for additional treatment. The mean total LUTS-score improved from 12.4 at baseline to 3.7 postoperatively (p < 0.0001). The mean EQ-5D visual analogue scores and EQ-5D index improved from 61.2 and 0.76, respectively, at baseline to 77.9 and 0.89 postoperatively (p < 0.0001, p < 0.0001). 55 patients (59.1%) were “very satisfied” with the outcome of their urethroplasty and 33 (35.5%) were “satisfied”.

Conclusions

The Japanese version of the USS-PROM has adequate psychometric properties. Urethroplasty improved not only objective data but also voiding symptoms and health-related QOL, and it resulted in a high rate of patient satisfaction.

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This study was supported by a grant for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (16H05467). We have no financial interests to disclose.

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  1. Department of Urology, National Defense Medical College, 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama, 359-8513, Japan

    Akio Horiguchi, Masayuki Shinchi, Kenichiro Ojima, Ayako Masunaga, Keiichi Ito & Tomohiko Asano

  2. Department of Urology, Nishisaitama-chuo National Hospital, Saitama, Japan

    Eiji Takahashi & Fumihiro Kimura

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan

    Ryuichi Azuma

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AH: data collection, project development, data analysis, and manuscript writing. MS: data collection/analysis. KO, AM, KI, TA, ET, and FK: data collection. RA: data collection, project development, and manuscript editing.

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Horiguchi, A., Shinchi, M., Ojima, K. et al. Evaluation of the effect of urethroplasty for anterior urethral strictures by a validated disease-specific patient-reported outcome measure. World J Urol 37, 601–606 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-018-2540-z

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Keywords

  • Urethroplasty
  • Quality of life
  • Patient-reported outcome
  • Validation