Translation, cultural adaptation and linguistic validation of the pectus excavatum evaluation questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pectus excavatum often imposes significant burden on the patients' quality of life. However, despite the known biopsychosocial effects, the deformity remains underappreciated. Patient reported outcome measures can be used to measure and appreciate results from a patient's perspective. The pectus excavatum evaluation questionnaire (PEEQ) is the most employed disease specific instrument to measure patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). A translation and linguistic validation of this questionnaire is presented for its use in the Dutch pediatric pectus excavatum population. By providing an insight in our translation process, we want to encourage other researchers to perform translations to other languages to make the questionnaire available to clinicians and researchers

SUBMITTER: Janssen N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344429 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature