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Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version

BACKGROUND: The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS) is a self-administered questionnaire developed in the United States to evaluate the severity of the common cold and its reliability has been validated. We developed a Korean language version of this questionnaire by using a sequentia...

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Autores principales: Yang, Su-Young, Kang, Weechang, Yeo, Yoon, Park, Yang-Chun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Epidemiological Association 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21691034
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20100160
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author Yang, Su-Young
Kang, Weechang
Yeo, Yoon
Park, Yang-Chun
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Kang, Weechang
Yeo, Yoon
Park, Yang-Chun
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description BACKGROUND: The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS) is a self-administered questionnaire developed in the United States to evaluate the severity of the common cold and its reliability has been validated. We developed a Korean language version of this questionnaire by using a sequential forward and backward translation approach. The purpose of this study was to validate the Korean version of the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-K) in Korean patients with common cold. METHODS: This multicenter prospective study enrolled 107 participants who were diagnosed with common cold and consented to participate in the study. The WURSS-K includes 1 global illness severity item, 32 symptom-based items, 10 functional quality-of-life (QOL) items, and 1 item assessing global change. The SF-8 was used as an external comparator. RESULTS: The participants were 54 women and 53 men aged 18 to 42 years. The WURSS-K showed good reliability in 10 domains, with Cronbach’s alphas ranging from 0.67 to 0.96 (mean: 0.84). Comparison of the reliability coefficients of the WURSS-K and WURSS yielded a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.71 (P = 0.02). Validity of the WURSS-K was evaluated by comparing it with the SF-8, which yielded a Pearson correlation coefficient of −0.267 (P < 0.001). The Guyatt’s responsiveness index of the WURSS-K ranged from 0.13 to 0.46, and the correlation coefficient with the WURSS was 0.534 (P < 0.001), indicating that there was close correlation between the WURSS-K and WURSS. CONCLUSIONS: The WURSS-K is a reliable, valid, and responsive disease-specific questionnaire for assessing symptoms and QOL in Korean patients with common cold.
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spelling pubmed-38994292014-02-04 Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version Yang, Su-Young Kang, Weechang Yeo, Yoon Park, Yang-Chun J Epidemiol Original Article BACKGROUND: The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS) is a self-administered questionnaire developed in the United States to evaluate the severity of the common cold and its reliability has been validated. We developed a Korean language version of this questionnaire by using a sequential forward and backward translation approach. The purpose of this study was to validate the Korean version of the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-K) in Korean patients with common cold. METHODS: This multicenter prospective study enrolled 107 participants who were diagnosed with common cold and consented to participate in the study. The WURSS-K includes 1 global illness severity item, 32 symptom-based items, 10 functional quality-of-life (QOL) items, and 1 item assessing global change. The SF-8 was used as an external comparator. RESULTS: The participants were 54 women and 53 men aged 18 to 42 years. The WURSS-K showed good reliability in 10 domains, with Cronbach’s alphas ranging from 0.67 to 0.96 (mean: 0.84). Comparison of the reliability coefficients of the WURSS-K and WURSS yielded a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.71 (P = 0.02). Validity of the WURSS-K was evaluated by comparing it with the SF-8, which yielded a Pearson correlation coefficient of −0.267 (P < 0.001). The Guyatt’s responsiveness index of the WURSS-K ranged from 0.13 to 0.46, and the correlation coefficient with the WURSS was 0.534 (P < 0.001), indicating that there was close correlation between the WURSS-K and WURSS. CONCLUSIONS: The WURSS-K is a reliable, valid, and responsive disease-specific questionnaire for assessing symptoms and QOL in Korean patients with common cold. Japan Epidemiological Association 2011-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3899429/ /pubmed/21691034 http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20100160 Text en © 2011 Japan Epidemiological Association. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kang, Weechang
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Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version
title Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version
title_full Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version
title_fullStr Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version
title_full_unstemmed Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version
title_short Reliability and Validity of Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey, Korean Version
title_sort reliability and validity of wisconsin upper respiratory symptom survey, korean version
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3899429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21691034
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20100160
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