Authors: Kaven Baessler Sheila M O’Neill Christopher F Maher Diana Battistutta
Publish Date: 2009/09/12
Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-172
Abstract
The questionnaire was completed by 163 women attending an urogynecological clinic Face and convergent validity was assessed Reliability testing and comparison with the intervieweradministered version was performed in a subset of 105 patients Responsiveness was evaluated in a subset of 73 womenMissing data did not exceed 4 for any question Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were acceptable in all domains Kappa coefficients for the test–retest analyses varied from 064–10 Prolapse symptoms correlated significantly with the pelvic organ prolapse quantification Urodynamics confirmed the reported symptom stress incontinence in 70 The self and intervieweradministered questionnaires demonstrated equivalence Effect sizes ranged from 06 to 14The validation of the selfadministered pelvic floor questionnaire without sensitivity to change was presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society in 2004 Paris podium presentation extended abstract a validated female pelvic floor questionnaire for clinicians and researchers Baessler K O’Neill S Maher C Battistutta D Neurourol Urodynam 2004 23 398–399Selfadministered Australian pelvic floor questionnaire please note that the numbers for scoring have been included to facilitate the interpretation of the questionnaire When applying this questionnaire to a patient the numbers should be replaced by boxes to avoid any bias
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