Deshpande Mandar S, Kakade Anagha C, Chaukar Devendra A, Gore Vinod T, Pai Prathamesh S, Chaturvedi Pankaj, D'Cruz Anil K
Department of Surgical Oncology, Head and Neck Services, Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai 400012, India.
Head Neck. 2009 Jan;31(1):37-44. doi: 10.1002/hed.20922.
Voice-related quality of life (V-RQOL) has never been studied in Indian patients. This study was planned to validate and assess V-RQOL in patients using tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP).
A cross-sectional study was undertaken to validate V-RQOL questionnaire by testing reliability, validity, and responsiveness. V-RQOL was assessed in patients undergoing total laryngectomy with primary TEP.
One hundred thirty-two patients filled 188 questionnaires. Analysis was carried out on 122 patients. Reliability and validity of questionnaire were tested by Cronbach's alpha (.84-.91) and item-scale correlation (.67-.86). Median V-RQOL-Total score was 76.2 indicating excellent V-RQOL. Higher scores were observed in patients less than 50 years (82.5 vs 72.5, p = .08). There was no effect of time interval between laryngectomy and assessment of questionnaire on the V-RQOL scores.
V-RQOL questionnaire can be used reliably to assess V-RQOL, which is found to be excellent in Indian patients undergoing TEP.
在印度患者中,从未对嗓音相关生活质量(V-RQOL)进行过研究。本研究旨在验证并评估采用气管食管穿刺(TEP)的患者的V-RQOL。
开展一项横断面研究,通过测试信度、效度和反应度来验证V-RQOL问卷。对接受全喉切除术并进行一期TEP的患者进行V-RQOL评估。
132名患者填写了188份问卷。对122名患者进行了分析。通过克朗巴哈系数(0.84 - 0.91)和项目-量表相关性(0.67 - 0.86)对问卷的信度和效度进行了测试。V-RQOL总分中位数为76.2,表明V-RQOL极佳。年龄小于50岁的患者得分更高(82.5对72.5,p = 0.08)。喉切除术后至问卷评估的时间间隔对V-RQOL评分没有影响。
V-RQOL问卷可可靠地用于评估V-RQOL,在接受TEP的印度患者中,V-RQOL极佳。