Performance of commonly used respiratory questionnaire items in a cohort of infants born preterm.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Items from respiratory questionnaires validated in older children are often used in research studies of preterm infants, although they have not been validated in this population. We aimed to assess both test-retest reliability and convergent validity of a group of commonly used respiratory questionnaire items in a cohort of preterm infants.

Methods

The health status of 300 preterm infants was assessed by telephone questionnaire as part of a prospective cohort study. The questionnaire items analyzed in this study included six commonly used respiratory questions. The questionnaire responses used in this analysis were from the telephone follow-up in this cohort at six months of age adjusted for prematurity. A repeat interview one to two weeks after this interview was

SUBMITTER: Boggs E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3997171 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature