Development and evaluation of a questionnaire to capture environmental and occupational inhalational exposures in adults with fibrotic interstitial lung disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identification of exposures in patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) is essential for diagnosis and management and can be facilitated through the use of exposure questionnaires. However, for most ILDs, a patient-focused questionnaire is lacking. Cognitive interviewing is a methodology used to evaluate sources of understanding and misunderstanding in a questionnaire and to provide evidence of content validity. We developed and refined a new exposure questionnaire for patients with fibrotic ILDs by using cognitive interviewing to establish its understandability and content validity.

Methods

An exposure assessment questionnaire was developed by a multidisciplinary team. Cognitive interviews with 24 patients with fibrosing ILDs were conducted by trained inte

SUBMITTER: Swaminathan AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481565 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature