Short quality of life scale: A cross-cultural validation in Iranian patients with multiple sclerosis.
Mult Scler Relat Disord
; 58: 103411, 2022 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-35216776
ABSTRACT
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is the prioritized measure in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The short quality of life scale (SQoL) developed by Devy et al. (2013) is an MS-specific and abbreviated scale with ten items suitable for routine medical care settings. The current study reported the cross-cultural validation of the scale in the Persian language. A total of 455 convenient MS patients with a mean age of 38.39 (9.28) ranged from 18 to 64 filled out the primary measure and the validating measures, including hospital anxiety and depression scale, visual analogue scale - quality of life, and a single index of the number of past-year MS relapse. The confirmatory factor analysis on original structure indicated an acceptable model fit. However, a modestly modified structure composing of physical-functional dimension (items #1-3), mental dimension (items #5-8), and pain & energy dimension (items 4 & 9,10) was also exposed with a sound fit and a meaningful structure. The overall internal consistency reliability was sound (0.88), and the concurrent validity was confirmed. The Persian short quality of life scale (P-SQoL) is the first translated and validated version of the scale, surfacing significant implications. Further cross-cultural investigations are recommended to re-examine current findings. The classic and recent suggestions concerning the close interplay between the immunity system and the psychological system and the implications based on Iran's context are discussed.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Qualidade de Vida
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Esclerose Múltipla
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Mult Scler Relat Disord
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Irã
País de publicação:
HOLANDA
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HOLLAND
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NETHERLANDS
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NL
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PAISES BAJOS
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THE NETHERLANDS