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- Title
Validity and reliability of the Persian version of the oropharyngeal Mucositis quality of life scale.
- Authors
Hasheminasab, Fatemeh Sadat; Pourpasha, Mona; Dehghan, Azizallah; Galousalari, Mahboubeh Yari; Hashemi, Seyed Mehdi; Setayesh, Mohammad
- Abstract
Background: Oral mucositis is one of the serious complications of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy that significantly affects the quality of patients' life. The Oropharyngeal Mucositis-Specific Quality-of-Life questionnaire (OMQoL) is an acceptable instrument for measuring the quality of life in these patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Persian version of OMQoL questionnaire. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional and multi-centric research. After translation from English to Persian, back translation, and cultural adaptation, the Persian version of the questionnaire was prepared. One hundred forty-four patients suffering from oral mucositis referred to three different university affiliated hospitals related to Zahedan, Kerman and Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences, were participated in this study. Then the questionnaire was completed by trained interviewers. The reliability was assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and validity was measured through factor analysis, and construct validity (including discriminant validity, and convergent validity) methods. Results: Cronbach's alpha in all dimensions was higher than 0.9 that indicated a perfect internal consistency. The results of factor analysis indicated that the dimensions specified in the Persian version were the same as the original version (Factor loading of all items > 0.4). The correlation coefficient for all items was more than 0.75, and the convergence validity was 100% in all dimensions. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the reliability, and validity of Persian version of OMQoL were acceptable, which can be used to measure the quality of life in patients with oral mucositis.
- Subjects
IRAN; EXPERIMENTAL design; RESEARCH; STOMATITIS; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; CANCER chemotherapy; RESEARCH methodology; CROSS-sectional method; MEDICAL cooperation; DISCRIMINANT analysis; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents; RISK assessment; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques; QUALITY of life; QUESTIONNAIRES; FACTOR analysis; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICAL correlation; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
BMC Oral Health, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-6831
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12903-021-01938-w