Psychometric properties of the German version of the Leicester Cough Questionnaire in sarcoidosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cough is one of the most common symptoms in general and pulmonary medicine with profound negative impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). The Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ) is a validated HRQL questionnaire, yet a validated German version of the LCQ is not available and it has never been tested in a cohort with sarcoidosis.

Objectives

To translate the LCQ into German and determine its psychometric properties.

Methods

The LCQ was translated in a forward-backward approach. Structured interviews in sarcoidosis patients were performed. Subsequently, sarcoidosis patients were asked to answer the German LCQ and comparative questionnaires. Distribution properties, item difficulty, concurrent validity, Rasch model fit and internal consistency of the G

SUBMITTER: Schupp JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6171952 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature