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Validation of a Self‐administered Urological Questionnaire
Author(s) -
BRITTON J. P.,
DOWELL A. C.,
WHELAN P.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1990.tb14681.x
Subject(s) - medicine , disease , internal consistency , reliability (semiconductor) , test (biology) , questionnaire , physical therapy , family medicine , psychometrics , clinical psychology , paleontology , power (physics) , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , sociology , biology
Summary— Self‐administered questionnaires are widely used in clinical practice and as an aid to research. However, their reliability as a means of eliciting symptoms of urological disease has not been established. A questionnaire designed to elicit symptoms of urological disease was validated in 120 patients (36 out‐patients, 27 in‐patients and 57 community patients). All found the questionnaire acceptable and the completion rate was 99%. Only 3 of 648 answers were changed on the test‐retest analysis. Consistency, as assessed by a comparison of responses by clinician and patient, was satisfactory in 11 of 15 questions relating to urological symptoms and the questionnaire successfully identified a high risk group of patients from the community requiring further urological evaluation. The need to include results of a preliminary validation study when reporting results obtained by a self‐administered questionnaire is emphasised.