Evaluation of the Farsi‐translated Hemorrhoidal Disease Symptom Score and Short Health Scale questionnaires in patients with hemorrhoid disease: A cross‐sectional study

• Published in: Health science reports 2023-06, Vol.6 (6), p.e1363-n/a
• Main Authors: Fallah Tafti, Seyedeh Parisa, Foroutani, Laleh, Safari, Roxana, Hadizadeh, Alireza, Behboudi, Behnam, Ahmadi Tafti, Seyed Mohsen, Keramati, Mohammad Reza, Fazeli, Mohammad Sadegh, Keshvari, Amir, Kazemeini, Alireza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anus; Cross-sectional studies; hemorrhoidal disease; Hemorrhoidal Disease Symptom Score; Hemorrhoids; Inflammatory bowel disease; Likert scale; Obesity; Original Research; Patients; Persian language; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Short Health Scale; Statistical analysis; Surgeons; Translations; Validity
• ISSN: 2398-8835; 2398-8835
• DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.1363

Background and Aims The Hemorrhoidal Disease Symptom Score (HDSS) is a tool that is scored based on five main symptoms: pain, bleeding, itching, soiling, and prolapse. Furthermore, the Short Health Scale (SHS) is a measurement tool of subjective health and health‐related quality of life. This study was performed to validate the Farsi‐translated Hemorrhoidal Disease Symptom Score (HDSS), and Scale Short Health Scale adapted for hemorrhoidal disease (SHS‐HD) as a measure of symptom severity in patients with hemorrhoid disease. Methods In this study, HDSS and SHS‐HD were translated into Farsi. Participants with confirmed hemorrhoid disease completed the questionnaire. Subsequently, the questionnaire's discriminative validity, convergent validity, reliability, sensitivity, and specificity were evaluated. Results Data from 31 patients were analyzed (mean age 39.68; 71% male). The results of the analysis showed good internal consistency as Cronbach's α for HDSS and SHS were 0.994 and 0.995 respectively. Spearman's correlation coefficient for the test–retest comparison was 0.986 (p