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dc.contributor.authorAlmutary, Hayfa
dc.contributor.authorBonner, Ann
dc.contributor.authorDouglas, Clint
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-09T00:28:47Z
dc.date.available2020-12-09T00:28:47Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1471-2369
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12882-015-0036-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/400101
dc.description.abstractBackground: Symptom burden in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is poorly understood. To date, the majority of research focuses on single symptoms and there is a lack of suitable multidimensional symptom measures. The purpose of this study was to modify, translate, cross-culturally adapt and psychometrically analyse the Dialysis Symptom Index (DSI). Methods: The study methods involved four phases: modification, translation, pilot-testing with a bilingual non-CKD sample and then psychometric testing with the target population. Content validity was assessed using an expert panel. Inter-rater agreement, test-retest reliability and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were calculated to demonstrate reliability of the modified DSI. Discriminative and convergent validity were assessed to demonstrate construct validity. Results: Content validity index during translation was 0.98. In the pilot study with 25 bilingual students a moderate to perfect agreement (Kappa statistic = 0.60-1.00) was found between English and Arabic versions of the modified DSI. The main study recruited 433 patients CKD with stages 4 and 5. The modified DSI was able to discriminate between non-dialysis and dialysis groups (p < 0.001) and demonstrated convergent validity with domains of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life short form. Excellent test-retest and internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.91) reliability were also demonstrated. Conclusion: The Arabic version of the modified DSI demonstrated good psychometric properties, measures the multidimensional nature of symptoms and can be used to assess symptom burden at different stages of CKD. The modified instrument, renamed the CKD Symptom Burden Index (CKD-SBI), should encourage greater clinical and research attention to symptom burden in CKD.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBMC
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom36
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBMC Nephrology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume16
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsUrology & Nephrology
dc.subject.keywordsChronic kidney disease
dc.subject.keywordsSymptom burden
dc.titleArabic translation, adaptation and modification of the dialysis symptom index for chronic kidney disease stages four and five
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAlmutary, H; Bonner, A; Douglas, C, Arabic translation, adaptation and modification of the dialysis symptom index for chronic kidney disease stages four and five, BMC Nephrology, 2015, 16 (1), pp. 36
dcterms.dateAccepted2015-03-18
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2020-12-09T00:26:25Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Almutary et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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