Adaptation and Validation of the International Pelvic Pain Society's Quality of Life Questionnaire in Portuguese.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

 In the present study, our aim was to translate, adapt, and validate the Pelvic Health History Form (a quality of life [QoL] questionnaire) of the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) from English to Portuguese.

Methods

 The study was approved by the Ethics and Research Committee (CEP, in the Portuguese acronym) and the IPPS. The "Transcultural Adaptation" method comprised 5 stages: translation, synthesis, backtranslation, expert review, and pretest. Cultural adaptation and validation included cognitive interviews and statistical analysis of unanswered items (> 15%) in 14 clinic patients from CPP and endometriosis clinic at Santa Casa de São Paulo.

Results

 Strong equivalences were established between the USA and Brazil questionnaires in terms of semanti

SUBMITTER: Hayashi LFL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10635788 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature