A Short Multilingual Quality of Life Questionnaire: Practicability, Reliability and Interlingual Homogeneity

International cooperative clinical trials require a multilingual quality of life questionnaire. The 'International Society for Chemo- and Immunotherapy' therefore designed a study to develop and test a 'health accentuated' quality of life questionnaire in the eight languages spok...

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Published in:Quality of life research 1992-04, Vol.1 (2), p.107-117
Main Authors: H. Tüchler, S. Hofmann, M. Bernhart, M. Brugiatelli, L. Chrobak, Franke, A., Herold, M., J. Holowiecki, R. Ihle, B. Jaksic, I. Krc, N. Munteanu, M. Pawlicki, A. Sakalova, V. Schranz, Wolf, H., D. Lutz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Clinical trials
Communication Barriers
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Factor analysis
Female
Health Status
Humans
Language
Leukemia
Male
Middle Aged
Multidimensional scaling
Multilingualism
Oncology
P values
Psychometrics
Quality of Life
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
Time Factors
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Summary:International cooperative clinical trials require a multilingual quality of life questionnaire. The 'International Society for Chemo- and Immunotherapy' therefore designed a study to develop and test a 'health accentuated' quality of life questionnaire in the eight languages spoken in this society. The objective was to examine practicability, reliability and interlingual homogeneity. Versions of the questionnaire in Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, Kroatian, Polish, Romanian and Slovakian have been prepared. The results are based on data of 1,104 adult patients. They demonstrate that the developed questionnaire is practicable. Patients need 10-15 min to answer it, usually without assistance. The proportion of missing values is for all but two questions less than 3%. The questionnaire also found high acceptance reflected by only 2.7% refusals. It is reasonably reliable in each language. Interlingual homogeneity could be shown by demonstration of strong structural similarities between the different versions using multidimensional scaling, factor analysis and comparison of mean profiles.
ISSN:0962-9343
1573-2649
DOI:10.1007/BF00439718