Pediatric Functional Constipation Questionnaire-Parent Report (PedFCQuest-PR): development and validation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Developing and validating a disease-specific instrument in the Brazilian Portuguese language to assess the Health-Related Quality of Life of children with functional constipation, applied to parents/caregivers.

Methods

The process of developing the questionnaire was carried out in the following steps: items generation concerning functional constipation; elaboration of the preliminary questionnaire; assessment by health professionals; identifying problems or inconsistencies by the researchers; improvement of the questions; obtaining a final questionnaire named Pediatric Functional Constipation Questionnaire-Parent Form (PedFCQuest-PR) with 26 questions divided into four domains. Responses options use a Likert scale based on the events of the last four weeks. The pro

SUBMITTER: Gamarra ACQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9432193 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature