Validity and feasibility of the wound-QoL questionnaire on health-related quality of life in chronic wounds.
Chronic wounds have a major socioeconomic impact due to their frequency, chronicity, and societal costs. Patients experience substantial quality of life (QoL) impairments. The use of questionnaires for a continuous assessment of QoL and resulting interventions to improve the situation of the individ...
| Publicado en: | Wound Repair & Regeneration Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 852 - 858 |
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| Formato: | questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep/Oct2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=127491168&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 127491168 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10671927 DPV jtl: Wound Repair & Regeneration issn: 10671927 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Sep/Oct2017 vid: 25 iid: 5 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 127491168 127491168 127491168 10.1111/wrr.12583 127491168 ppf: 852 ppct: 6 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Validity and feasibility of the wound-QoL questionnaire on health-related quality of life in chronic wounds. aug: au: Augustin, Matthias Conde Montero, Elena Zander, Nicole Baade, Katrin Herberger, Katharina Debus, E. Sebastian Diener, Holger Neubert, Thomas Blome, Christine affil: German Center for Health Services Research in Dermatology (CVderm), Institute for Health Services Research in Dermatology and Nursing (IVDP), University Medical Center Hamburg‐Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany sug: subj: Quality of Life Wounds, Chronic Psychosocial Factors Instrument Validation Questionnaires Human Multicenter Studies Prospective Studies Descriptive Statistics Male Female Adolescence Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over Leg Ulcer Psychosocial Factors Pyoderma Gangrenosum Psychosocial Factors Diabetic Foot Psychosocial Factors Pressure Ulcer Psychosocial Factors Coefficient alpha P-Value Criterion-Related Validity Pilot Studies Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: Chronic wounds have a major socioeconomic impact due to their frequency, chronicity, and societal costs. Patients experience substantial quality of life (QoL) impairments. The use of questionnaires for a continuous assessment of QoL and resulting interventions to improve the situation of the individual are an important cornerstone of a guideline-based wound care. The aim of this study was to investigate the validity of the Wound-QoL questionnaire. Patients with chronic wounds from two different centers were included in the prospective study. All patients completed the Wound-QoL and two other QoL questionnaires (European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions, EQ-5D, and Freiburg Life Quality Assessment for wounds, FLQA-wk) at baseline and at two more time points (4 and 8 weeks, respectively). Wound status was defined with an anchor question. Two hundred and twenty-seven patients (48.5% women) participated in the study. Mean age was 66.9 years (range 17-96, median 69.5). Indications were venous leg ulcers (40.1%), pyoderma gangraenosum (14.1%), diabetic or ischemic foot ulcers (5.3%), pressure ulcers (2.6%), and other etiologies (30.0%). The Wound-QoL showed good internal consistency, with high Cronbach's alpha in all the subscales and in the global scale in all time points (>0.8). Convergent validity was satisfactory since there were significantly ( p ≤ 0.001) good correlations with the EQ-5D (range = 0.5-0.7) and FLQA-wk global score ( r > 0.8) at every time point. Responsiveness was high, too. The Wound-QoL is a simple, valid tool for the longitudinal assessment of QoL in patients with chronic wounds. This questionnaire is suitable for use in clinical trials, quality of care studies and clinical routine. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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