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Quality‐assessment of disease‐specific quality of life questionnaires for rhinitis and rhinosinusitis: a systematic review
Author(s) -
Van Oene C. M.,
Van Reij E. J. F.,
Sprangers M. A. G.,
Fokkens W. J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.363
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1398-9995
pISSN - 0105-4538
DOI - 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2007.01482.x
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , chronic rhinosinusitis , discriminant validity , disease , sinusitis , physical therapy , quality (philosophy) , systematic review , medline , psychometrics , clinical psychology , pathology , surgery , philosophy , nursing , epistemology , internal consistency , political science , law
The aim of this systematic review was to give a quality‐assessed review of the existing disease‐specific health related quality of life (QOL) questionnaires concerning rhinitis and rhinosinusitis for adults. The quality is assessed by defining the characteristics of a QOL questionnaire with assessment criteria. The results of the construction, description, feasibility, and the psychometric performance of the instruments are provided. We finally provide a clinician’s guide to choose a questionnaire based on the measurement goals, the discriminant validity, responsiveness and the points obtained in the quality assessment. Of the top scoring instruments regarding the overall quality assessment, only four health related QOL questionnaires for rhinitis and rhinosinusitis met our criteria for the discriminant validity and responsiveness.