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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The Reflux Disease Questionnaire: a measure for assessment of treatment response in clinical trials |
Author: | Shaw, M. Dent, J. Beebe, T. Junghard, O. Wiklund, I. Lind, T. Johnsson, F. |
Citation: | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2008; 6(31):1-6 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
ISSN: | 1477-7525 1477-7525 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Michael Shaw, John Dent, Timothy Beebe, Ola Junghard, Ingela Wiklund, Tore Lind and Folke Johnsson |
Abstract: | Background: Critical needs for treatment trials in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) include assessing response to treatment, evaluating symptom severity, and translation of symptom questionnaires into multiple languages. We evaluated the previously validated Reflux Disease Questionnaire (RDQ) for internal consistency, reliability, responsiveness to change during treatment and the concordance between RDQ and specialty physician assessment of symptom severity, after translation into Swedish and Norwegian. Methods: Performance of the RDQ after translation into Swedish and Norwegian was evaluated in 439 patients with presumed GERD in a randomized, double-blind trial of active treatment with a proton pump inhibitor. Results: The responsiveness was excellent across three RDQ indicators. Mean change scores in patients on active treatment were large, also reflected in effect sizes that ranged from a low of 1.05 (dyspepsia) to a high of 2.05 (heartburn) and standardized response means 0.99 (dyspepsia) and 1.52 (heartburn). A good positive correlation between physician severity ratings and RDQ scale scores was seen. The internal consistency reliability using alpha coefficients of the scales, regardless of language, ranged from 0.67 to 0.89. Conclusion: The results provide strong evidence that the RDQ is amenable to translation and represents a viable instrument for assessing response to treatment, and symptom severity. |
Keywords: | Humans Gastroesophageal Reflux Severity of Illness Index Analysis of Variance Reproducibility of Results Psychometrics Quality of Life Adult Middle Aged Female Male Surveys and Questionnaires |
DOI: | 10.1186/1477-7525-6-31 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-6-31 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Medicine publications |
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