Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Western Ontario Meniscal Evaluation Tool (WOMET)

• Published in: Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA, 2015-03, Vol.23 (3), p.816-825
• Main Authors: Celik, Derya, Demirel, Murat, Kuş, Gamze, Erdil, Mehmet, Özdinçler, Arzu Razak
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adult; Aged; Clinical outcomes; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Female; Health Status Indicators; Humans; Injuries; Interpreters; Knee; Knee Injuries; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Ontario; Orthopedics; Pathology; Patients; Psychometrics; Quality of Life; Quantitative psychology; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tibial Meniscus Injuries; Translations; Turkey; Validity; Young Adult
• ISSN: 0942-2056; 1433-7347
• DOI: 10.1007/s00167-013-2753-z

Purpose The Western Ontario Meniscal Evaluation Tool (WOMET) is a questionnaire designed to evaluate quality of life related to the health (HRQOL) of patients with meniscus pathology. The purpose of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the WOMET into Turkish, and thereby to determine the reliability and validity of the translated version. Methods The WOMET was translated into Turkish in accordance with the stages recommended by Guillemin. Ninety-six patients [35 male, 61 female; mean age: 43.6 ± 11.7 (23–71) years] with meniscal pathology were included in the study. The WOMET was completed twice at 3–7-day intervals. The inter-rater correlation coefficient was used for reliability, and Cronbach’s α was used for internal consistency. Patients were asked to answer the Lysholm knee scale and the short form-36 (SF-36) for the validity of the estimation. The distribution of ceiling and floor effects was determined. Results Mean and s tandard deviation of the first and second evaluations of the total WOMET were 1,048.9 ± 271.6 and 1,000.4 ± 255.2 ( p  = 0.03), respectively. The test–retest reliability of the total score, physical function, sports/work/lifestyle and emotion domains were 0.88, 0.78, 0.80 and 0.85, respectively. Cronbach’s α was 0.89. WOMET was most strongly related to the physical function scale and the physical component score ( ρ 0.54, ρ 0.60, respectively; p