Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of the Vertigo symptom scale-short form in the central Kurdish dialect.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Core vestibular symptoms are vague, hard for patients to describe, and difficult for examiners to quantify. Reliable and validated patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have obtained acceptance and popularity in the specialty of vestibular disorders. In Kurdish, there is a critical shortage of such measures. The aim of this survey was to assess the psychometric properties of a central Kurdish version (VSS - SF - CK) of the Vertigo Symptom Scale-Short Form (VSS - SF).

Methods

The study utilized a regulated process of cross-cultural adaptation to produce the VSS - SF - CK. We examined its psychometric properties by using a cross-sectional survey. Owing to a non-normal distribution, both principal axis factoring and polychoric correlation were used to examine the

SUBMITTER: Zmnako SSF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6637568 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature