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Linguistic and clinical validation of the Arabic-translated Aberdeen Menorrhagia Severity Scale as an indicator of quality of life for women with abnormal uterine bleeding

Basim F. Abu-Rafea, George A. Vilos, Rakia S. Al Jasser, Reem M. Al Anazy, Khalida Javaid and Hazem M. Al-Mandeel
Saudi Medical Journal August 2012, 33 (8) 869-874;
Basim F. Abu-Rafea
Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel. +966 (1) 4670818. Fax. +966 (1) 4679557. E-mail: [email protected]
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George A. Vilos
Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel. +966 (1) 4670818. Fax. +966 (1) 4679557. E-mail: [email protected]
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Rakia S. Al Jasser
Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel. +966 (1) 4670818. Fax. +966 (1) 4679557. E-mail: [email protected]
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Reem M. Al Anazy
Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel. +966 (1) 4670818. Fax. +966 (1) 4679557. E-mail: [email protected]
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Khalida Javaid
Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel. +966 (1) 4670818. Fax. +966 (1) 4679557. E-mail: [email protected]
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Hazem M. Al-Mandeel
Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Khalid University Hospital, PO Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Tel. +966 (1) 4670818. Fax. +966 (1) 4679557. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To develop a conceptually and semantically valid Arabic version of a validated disease-specific instrument of quality of life (QoL) for women with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB).

METHODS: This is a prospective cohort study conducted at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between December 2010 and December 2011 following ethics approval. Forward translation of the Aberdeen Menorrhagia Severity Scale (AMSS) from English into Arabic was followed by backward translation of the consensus target (Arabic) version into the source (English) language. Subsequently, a final target (Arabic) language version was created. Sixty-one Arabic-speaking women of reproductive age participated in the study. The final Arabic questionnaire was administered to 41 women with self-perceived normal menses (Group 1) on 2 occasions 2 weeks apart. Agreement in the answers deems the questionnaire reliable. The final Arabic version was administered to 20 women with self-perceived AUB (Group 2), and their scores were compared with the first response of Group 1. A significant difference between the groups deems the questionnaire valid.

RESULTS: For linguistic validation; intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.87 and Kappa statistics of 0.56 to 0.87 indicated good to excellent agreement. For clinical validation, there was a significant difference between Group 1 and 2 (p=0.001).

CONCLUSION: The translated Arabic AMSS is a reliable and valid indicator of QoL in Saudi women with AUB.

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Basim F. Abu-Rafea, George A. Vilos, Rakia S. Al Jasser, Reem M. Al Anazy, Khalida Javaid, Hazem M. Al-Mandeel
Saudi Medical Journal Aug 2012, 33 (8) 869-874;

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Linguistic and clinical validation of the Arabic-translated Aberdeen Menorrhagia Severity Scale as an indicator of quality of life for women with abnormal uterine bleeding
Basim F. Abu-Rafea, George A. Vilos, Rakia S. Al Jasser, Reem M. Al Anazy, Khalida Javaid, Hazem M. Al-Mandeel
Saudi Medical Journal Aug 2012, 33 (8) 869-874;
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