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Validation of the Spanish-language version of the Prolapse Quality of Life Questionnaire in Chilean women

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Abstract

Introduction and hypothesis

The Prolapse Quality of Life (P-QOL) questionnaire is a specific health-related quality of life (HRQL) instrument to assess the impact of POP on women. It has been validated in English-speaking women and to date has been translated into several other languages. However, currently there is no Spanish translation of the P-QOL questionnaire. The aim of this study was to translate the P-QOL questionnaire into Spanish and to assess its feasibility, validity, and reliability.

Methods

Following a forward- and back-translation of the original English P-QOL questionnaire into Spanish language, the translated questionnaire was reviewed by a group of patients as well as an expert panel to assess its comprehensibility. In this cross-sectional study women with POP symptoms were recruited from a tertiary referral teaching hospital. Women were defined as symptomatic if they report feeling a lump/bulge/pressure in the vagina. The Spanish translated P-QOL questionnaire was self-administered to all women. Reliability, content, and construct validity were evaluated using the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, ANOVA, and Spearman’s correlation tests.

Results

One hundred and twenty-eight women were studied. There were no missing items. The Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.626 to 0.866 across domains, demonstrating the good reliability of the Spanish P-QOL. The severity of symptoms was related to the worst quality of life, but the severity of POP was not related to poorer QoL.

Conclusions

The Spanish translated version of the P-QOL is a reliable, consistent and valid instrument to assess symptom severity and QoL impact in Chilean women with POP.

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  1. School of Nursing, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Claudia Flores-Espinoza & Alejandra Ximena Araya

  2. School of Nursing, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Claudia Flores-Espinoza & Vera Santos

  3. Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río, Santiago, Chile

    Javier Pizarro-Berdichevsky

  4. Obstetrics and Gynecology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Javier Pizarro-Berdichevsky

  5. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Javier Pizarro-Berdichevsky

  6. Health Services Research Group, IMIM-Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques, Barcelona, Spain

    Montserrat Ferrer & Olatz Garin

  7. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain

    Montserrat Ferrer & Olatz Garin

  8. CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

    Montserrat Ferrer & Olatz Garin

  9. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    Steven Swift

  10. Department of Urogynaecology, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK

    Alessandro G. Digesu

  11. Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860 Macul, PC 7820436, Santiago, Chile

    Claudia Flores-Espinoza

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Flores-Espinoza, C., Araya, A.X., Pizarro-Berdichevsky, J. et al. Validation of the Spanish-language version of the Prolapse Quality of Life Questionnaire in Chilean women. Int Urogynecol J 26, 123–130 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-014-2484-9

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