Nicola Quaranta1, Valentina De Robertis1, Claudia Milella2, Marco Pontrelli1, Antonio Greco2, Maria Luisa Fiorella1, Vito Pontillo1, Marco de Vincentiis3, Jonathan S Phillips4, Massimo Ralli5. 1. Otolaryngology Unit, Department of BMS, Neuroscience and Sensory Organs, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. 2. Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico 155, 00186, Rome, Italy. 3. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. 4. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK. 5. Department of Sense Organs, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale del Policlinico 155, 00186, Rome, Italy. massimo.ralli@uniroma1.it.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The evaluation of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic otitis media COM has gained attention over the past years and several questionnaires have been developed to evaluate it in affected patients. The Chronic Otitis Media Questionnaire 12 (COMQ-12) is a widely used disease-specific tool that evaluates the severity of symptoms, the specific impact on work and lifestyle, the effects on the health service, and general impact of the disease in patients with COM. The COMQ-12 questionnaire has been translated and validated into different languages; however, an Italian version is not yet available. The aim of this original study was to translate the COMQ-12 questionnaire into the Italian language and validate this new Italian language version in Italian-speaking patients with COM. METHODS: The COMQ-12 was translated into Italian (COMQ-12-It) following international guidelines. Validation was performed comparing and correlating COMQ-12-It with (1) a question that addresses HRQoL, and (2) the results of a generic questionnaire assessing HRQoL, namely the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire. RESULTS: Forty-eight patients with COM were included in the study. Cronbach's alpha was 0.80 indicating a high reliability. There was a strong positive correlation between the question that directly addressed HRQoL and total score (correlation coefficient = 0.62), while the regression analysis between total score of COMQ-12-It and EQ-5D-5L showed a positive relation but only a weak positive correlation (correlation coefficient 0.36). CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed evidence that the Italian version of the COMQ-12 questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool to evaluate HRQoL in Italian-speaking patients with COM.
PURPOSE: The evaluation of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic otitis media COM has gained attention over the past years and several questionnaires have been developed to evaluate it in affected patients. The Chronic Otitis Media Questionnaire 12 (COMQ-12) is a widely used disease-specific tool that evaluates the severity of symptoms, the specific impact on work and lifestyle, the effects on the health service, and general impact of the disease in patients with COM. The COMQ-12 questionnaire has been translated and validated into different languages; however, an Italian version is not yet available. The aim of this original study was to translate the COMQ-12 questionnaire into the Italian language and validate this new Italian language version in Italian-speaking patients with COM. METHODS: The COMQ-12 was translated into Italian (COMQ-12-It) following international guidelines. Validation was performed comparing and correlating COMQ-12-It with (1) a question that addresses HRQoL, and (2) the results of a generic questionnaire assessing HRQoL, namely the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire. RESULTS: Forty-eight patients with COM were included in the study. Cronbach's alpha was 0.80 indicating a high reliability. There was a strong positive correlation between the question that directly addressed HRQoL and total score (correlation coefficient = 0.62), while the regression analysis between total score of COMQ-12-It and EQ-5D-5L showed a positive relation but only a weak positive correlation (correlation coefficient 0.36). CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed evidence that the Italian version of the COMQ-12 questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool to evaluate HRQoL in Italian-speaking patients with COM.
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COMQ-12; Cholesteatoma; Chronic otitis media; Health-related quality of life; Italian
Authors: Ana M Otoya-Tono; Lucía C Pérez-Herrera; Daniel Peñaranda; Sergio Moreno-López; Ricardo Sánchez-Pedraza; Juan Manuel García; John S Phillips; Augusto Peñaranda Journal: Health Qual Life Outcomes Date: 2020-11-10 Impact factor: 3.186