Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland.
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2022 Aug;167(2):391-394. doi: 10.1177/01945998211068748. Epub 2022 Jan 11.
The burden of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) symptomatology is frequently measured with the 22-item Sinonasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22). In some situations, such as when there is need for frequent sampling, a full SNOT-22 may be impractical, and an abbreviated measure may be useful. Herein, we study 4 questions reflecting the 4 SNOT-22 subdomains as accurate reflections of SNOT-22 content. In total, 250 patients with CRS completed a SNOT-22 and answered 4 questions about their total nasal symptoms, poor sleep quality, ear/facial pain, and mood (reflecting SNOT-22 subdomains) using visual analog scales (VASs). The 4 SNOT-22 subdomain VAS scores each correlated strongly with the corresponding SNOT-22 subdomain scores. The sum of the 4 subdomain question VAS scores was highly correlated with the total SNOT-22 score ( = 0.77, < .001). This preliminary study suggests information from the SNOT-22 may be ascertained through 4 questions reflecting the 4 SNOT-22 subdomains, although further validation is needed.
慢性鼻-鼻窦炎（CRS）症状的负担通常采用 22 项鼻-鼻窦结局测试（SNOT-22）进行测量。在某些情况下，例如需要频繁采样时，完整的 SNOT-22 可能不切实际，而简化的测量方法可能会更有用。在此，我们研究了 4 个问题，这些问题反映了 SNOT-22 的 4 个亚域，可作为 SNOT-22 内容的准确反映。共有 250 名 CRS 患者完成了 SNOT-22 测试，并使用视觉模拟量表（VAS）回答了 4 个关于他们的总鼻症状、睡眠质量差、耳/面部疼痛和情绪（反映 SNOT-22 亚域）的问题。这 4 个 SNOT-22 亚域 VAS 评分均与相应的 SNOT-22 亚域评分密切相关。4 个亚域问题 VAS 评分之和与 SNOT-22 总分高度相关（ = 0.77，<.001）。这项初步研究表明，通过反映 SNOT-22 4 个亚域的 4 个问题，可以获得 SNOT-22 的信息，但需要进一步验证。
