| The Bengali Short Form-36 was acceptable, reliable, and valid in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. | |
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PMID: 23017640 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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OBJECTIVE: To develop a culturally adapted Bengali version of the Short Form-36 (SF-36) Health Survey and to test its acceptability, reliability, and validity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The US English SF-36 was translated into Bengali after established cross-cultural adaptation procedures. The questionnaire was interviewer administered to 125 consecutive outpatients with RA and readministered after 2 weeks to 40 randomly selected patients. RESULTS: Most participants (86.4%) did not have any problem in understanding the Bengali SF-36 and 98.4% of the questionnaires were fully completed. Only the role-physical and role-emotional scales showed substantial floor and ceiling effects. Principal component analysis confirmed that the hypothesized two-factor structure and tests of scaling assumptions were 100% successful for all eight scales expect physical functioning (98.8%) and general health (77.5%). Cronbach's α was higher than 0.78 and the test-retest reliability was high (r>0.82) for all scales. Correlations with other disease activity parameters were generally as expected and summary scores were able to discriminate between relevant subgroups. CONCLUSION: The interviewer-administered Bengali SF-36 appears to be an acceptable, reliable, and valid instrument for measuring health-related quality of life in Bangladeshi patients with RA. The questionnaire should be further evaluated in people from the general population and in patients with different medical conditions. |
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Abu H M Feroz; Md Nazrul Islam; Peter Meindert Ten Klooster; Mahmud Hasan; Johannes J Rasker; Syed A Haq |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of clinical epidemiology Volume: 65 ISSN: 1878-5921 ISO Abbreviation: J Clin Epidemiol Publication Date: 2012 Nov |
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Created Date: 2012-09-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8801383 Medline TA: J Clin Epidemiol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1227-35 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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Department of Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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