Cross-cultural validation of the Italian Spine Youth Quality of Life questionnaire: the ISYQOL international.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and its treatments can severely impact health-related quality of life. The Italian Spine Youth Quality of Life (ISYQOL) questionnaire, initially developed in Italian and tested on Italian people, was created to measure quality of life in young persons with spine changes. ISYQOL was created using the Rasch analysis, a modern psychometric technique for questionnaires' assessment and development, which showed that the ordinal scores of the ISYQOL Italian version provide sound quality of life measures.

Aim

The current work aims to evaluate the cross-cultural equivalence of the ISYQOL questionnaire in seven different countries.

Design

Cross-sectional, international, multi-centre study.

Setting

Outpatient clinic.

Populati

SUBMITTER: Negrini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10272934 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature