Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.
J Prim Care Community Health. 2023 Jan-Dec;14:21501319231189060. doi: 10.1177/21501319231189060.
Quality of life (QoL) questionnaires are widely used in clinical interviews to assess the impact of medical interventions or measure the outcomes of healthcare services. The main aim of such questionnaires is the subjective assessment of health status and its impact on QoL. This study aimed to develop an efficient, short sinonasal disease assessment instrument, the sinonasal outcomes test-12 (SNOT-12), and to compare it with the preexisting SNOT-22.
This was a two-phase cross-sectional study. The study was performed between June 2019 and February 2020 using the electronic files of the ORL department outpatient clinics at King Fahd University Hospital, affiliated with Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. The study was performed in 2 phases: an item reduction phase, which resulted in an initial SNOT-12 scale, and a validation phase, using a comparative analysis of the initial SNOT-12 and the SNOT-22.
The developed short-form SNOT-12 maintained the 4 latent factors extracted in EFA (nasal, Sleep/extra nasal, psychological, ear/facial). It strongly correlated with SNOT-22 ( = 0.973). It had good construct reliability (0.705-0.901) and validity and a higher discrimination power than the SNOT-22.
The SNOT-12 is a short, valid, and reliable instrument that may prove useful for the initial screening and monitoring of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis.
生活质量（QoL）问卷广泛应用于临床访谈中，以评估医疗干预的效果或衡量医疗保健服务的结果。这类问卷的主要目的是主观评估健康状况及其对生活质量的影响。本研究旨在开发一种高效、简短的鼻-鼻窦疾病评估工具，即鼻-鼻窦结局测试-12 项（SNOT-12），并将其与现有的 SNOT-22 进行比较。
这是一项两阶段的横断面研究。研究于 2019 年 6 月至 2020 年 2 月期间在 Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal 大学附属医院的 King Fahd 大学医院耳鼻喉科门诊的电子病历中进行。研究分为两个阶段：一个是项目删减阶段，由此产生了初始的 SNOT-12 量表；另一个是验证阶段，使用初始的 SNOT-12 和 SNOT-22 的对比分析。
所开发的简短版 SNOT-12 保留了 EFA 中提取的 4 个潜在因素（鼻部、睡眠/额外鼻部、心理、耳/面部）。它与 SNOT-22 高度相关（=0.973）。它具有良好的结构可靠性（0.705-0.901）和有效性，且比 SNOT-22 具有更高的区分能力。
SNOT-12 是一种简短、有效且可靠的工具，可能对慢性鼻-鼻窦炎患者的初步筛查和监测有用。
