Validation of the severe respiratory insufficiency questionnaire for Chile.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term home non-invasive ventilation (LTH-NIV) has an impact on the health-related quality of life of patients with chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure (CRF) of different causes. There are generic and specific questionnaires for respiratory diseases. In 2003 a specific questionnaire was developed for patients with CRF in LTH-NIV, called the Severe Respiratory Insufficiency (SRI) questionnaire, which has been shown to be reproducible and reliable and has been validated in several languages. The aim of the study was to translate and culturally adapt the SRI questionnaire for adult Chilean patients under LTH-NIV, and to assess its psychometric properties.

Methods

The Chilean version of the SRI was obtained using the translation-back translation method, which w

SUBMITTER: Andrade M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9295393 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature