Psychometric properties of the Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ) in Urdu.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Numerous study tools on diabetes self-care have been introduced; however, most existing tools do not show expectable and meaningful correlations with patients' glycaemic control. The Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ) was designed to appraise self-care activities which can predict glycaemic control outcomes. However, this tool has not been validated in Pakistan. Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate and examine the psychometric properties of the Urdu version of DSMQ among type 2 diabetes patients.

Method

Standard forward-backward translation was used to translate the DSMQ into Urdu language. A convenience sample of 130 patients with type 2 diabetes was collected to assess the Urdu version's psychometric properties. Reliability was assessed b

SUBMITTER: Bukhsh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5639758 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature