Prospective Assessment of the Abdominal Hernia-Q (AHQ)-Patient Burden, Reliability, and Longitudinal Assessment of Quality of Life in Hernia Repair.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study assesses the user burden, reliability, and longitudinal validity of the AHQ, a novel VH patient-reported outcomes measure (PROM).

Background

We developed and psychometrically validated the AHQ as the first VH-specific, stakeholder-informed PROM. Yet, there remains a need to assess the AHQ's clinical applicability and further validate its psychometric properties.

Methods

To assess patient burden, pre- and postoperative patients were timed while completing the corresponding AHQ form. To measure test-retest reliability, a subset of patients completed the AHQ within a week of initial completion, and consecutive responses were correlated. Lastly, patients undergoing VH repair were prospectively administered the pre- and postoperative AHQ forms, the Her

SUBMITTER: Patel V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9645545 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature