Development and psychometric evaluation of a self report quality of life questionnaire for individuals with long term indwelling catheter: The ICIQ-LTCqol

Cotterill, N; Fowler, S; Avery, M; Cottenden, A; Wilde, M; Long, A; Fader, M

Abstract

Hypothesis / aims of study
Long-term indwelling catheters are commonly associated with complications which are known to be detrimental to quality of life. Clinical assessment and monitoring of patients with urinary catheters is also known to be poorly recorded. To date no questionnaire has been developed that incorporated the perspectives of both clinical experts and symptomatic patients to devise the draft instrument. This study aimed to develop such a tool for use in clinical practice and research, to reflect the users’ perspective of life with a long-term catheter. This questionnaire was developed as part of the ICIQ modular questionnaire (www.iciq.net), which aims to standardise assessment and promote the widespread use of self-completion questionnaires in clinical practice and research, and to facilitate comparisons between different treatment strategies and different patient groups. The studies below describe the psychometric evaluation of the final version of this new questionnaire: the ICIQ-LTCqol.

• Presentation Conference Type: Poster
• Conference Name: International Continence Society Annual Meeting 2013
• Start Date: Aug 26, 2013
• End Date: Aug 30, 2013
• Acceptance Date: Jun 1, 2013
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: urinary catheter, patient-centred assessment, quality of life, qualitative, quantitative, psychometric, questionnaire
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/931152
• Publisher URL: https://www.ics.org/2013/abstract/39
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : International Continence Society Annual Meeting 2013