Minimal important difference and patient acceptable symptom state for PFDI-20 and POPDI-6 in POP surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and hypothesis

Patient-reported outcome measures are fundamental tools when assessing effectiveness of treatments. The challenge lies in the interpretation: which magnitude of change in score is meaningful for the patients? The minimal important difference (MID) is defined as the smallest difference in score that patients perceive as important. The Patient Acceptable Symptom State (PASS) represents the value of score beyond which patients consider themselves well. We aimed to determine the MID and PASS for Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory-20 (PFDI-20) and Pelvic Organ Prolapse Distress Inventory-6 (POPDI-6) in pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery.

Methods

We used data from 2704 POP surgeries from a prospective, population-based cohort. MID was determined with thre

SUBMITTER: Karjalainen PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642346 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature