DISCERN - ein Instrument zur Bewertung der Qualität von Gesundheitsinformationen

Dierks, Marie-Lusie; Lerch, Magnus; Ollenschläger, G

doi:10.1515/pubhef-1999-1659

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“…DISCERN has primarily been used in English-speaking countries, although it has also been used in German, French, Dutch, Chinese and Iranian settings as well [ 9 , 11 , 15 – 17 ]. An authorized German translation of DISCERN was published by the German Agency for Quality in Medicine in 2000 [ 18 ]. DISCERN is available in German at www.discern.de .…”

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Evaluating Written Patient Information for Eczema in German: Comparing the Reliability of Two Instruments, DISCERN and EQIP

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Patients actively seek information about how to cope with their health problems, but the quality of the information available varies. A number of instruments have been developed to assess the quality of patient information, primarily though in English. Little is known about the reliability of these instruments when applied to patient information in German. The objective of our study was to investigate and compare the reliability of two validated instruments, DISCERN and EQIP, in order to determine which of these instruments is better suited for a further study pertaining to the quality of information available to German patients with eczema. Two independent raters evaluated a random sample of 20 informational brochures in German. All the brochures addressed eczema as a disorder and/or therapy options and care. Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability were assessed by calculating intra-class correlation coefficients, agreement was tested with weighted kappas, and the correlation of the raters’ scores for each instrument was measured with Pearson’s correlation coefficient. DISCERN demonstrated substantial intra- and inter-rater reliability. It also showed slightly better agreement than EQIP. There was a strong correlation of the raters’ scores for both instruments. The findings of this study support the reliability of both DISCERN and EQIP. However, based on the results of the inter-rater reliability, agreement and correlation analyses, we consider DISCERN to be the more precise tool for our project on patient information concerning the treatment and care of eczema.

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Evaluating Written Patient Information for Eczema in German: Comparing the Reliability of Two Instruments, DISCERN and EQIP

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“…The total score that a publication can obtain ranges from 16 to 80. On the basis of the overall scores obtained, the quality of a publication is rated as very poor (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26), poor (27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38), fair (39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50), good (51)(52)(53)(54)(55)(56)(57)(58)(59)(60)(61)(62), and excellent (63-80) [16,43].…”

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“…Montoya et al [29] merely translated DISCERN into Spanish and rated the comparability, interpretability, and understandability of the translated tool without testing its psychometric properties. Dierks et al [30] only translated DISCERN into German without describing its content validity and psychometric properties. From the aforementioned studies reporting interrater agreement, DISCERN translated and adapted into other languages exhibited fair to nearly complete interrater agreement.…”

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“…Although DISCERN was used in German-, French-, Dutch-, Chinese-, and Iranian-speaking communities [23][24][25][26][27], it has mostly been adopted in English-speaking countries [3]. It has been translated and adapted into Brazilian Portuguese [28], Spanish [29], and German [30] and validated in these languages, but no Chinese version of DISCERN is currently available in Chinese-speaking societies. We need to develop a simplified Chinese version of DISCERN for the following reasons: (1) very few English-language health information assessment scales have been translated and adapted into simplified Chinese tools;…”

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Translating and Adapting the DISCERN Instrument Into a Simplified Chinese Version and Validating Its Reliability: Development and Usability Study

Shan¹,

Xing²,

Dong³

et al. 2023

J Med Internet Res

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Background There is a wide variation in the quality of information available to patients on the treatment of the diseases afflicting them. To help patients find clear and accessible information, many scales have been designed to evaluate the quality of health information, including the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool; the Suitability Assessment of Materials for evaluation of health-related information for adults; and DISCERN, an instrument for judging the quality of written consumer health information on treatment choices. These instruments are primarily in English. Few of them have been translated and adapted into simplified Chinese tools for health information assessment in China. Objective This study aimed to translate and adapt DISCERN into the first simplified Chinese version and validate the psychometric properties of this newly developed scale for judging the quality of patient-oriented health information on treatment choices. Methods First, we translated DISCERN into simplified Chinese using rigorous guidelines for translation and validation studies. We tested the translation equivalence and measured the content validity index. We then presented the simplified Chinese instrument to 3 health educators and asked them to use it to assess the quality of 15 lung cancer–related materials. We calculated the Cohen κ coefficient and Cronbach α for all items and for the entire scale to determine the reliability of the new tool. Results We decided on the simplified Chinese version of the DISCERN instrument (C-DISCERN) after resolving all problems in translation, adaptation, and content validation. The C-DISCERN was valid and reliable: the content validity index was 0.98 (47/48, 98% of the items) for clarity and 0.94 (45/48, 94% of the items) for relevance, the Cronbach α for internal consistency was .93 (95% CI 0.699-1.428) for the whole translated scale, and the Cohen κ coefficient for internal consistency was 0.53 (95% CI 0.417-0.698). Conclusions C-DISCERN is the first simplified Chinese version of the DISCERN instrument. Its validity and reliability have been attested to assess the quality of patient-targeted information for treatment choices.

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“…11,[14][15][16][17] The DISCERN tool has been translated and validated in Spanish 18 and German. 19 There are no tools to objectively assess the quality of health texts in Brazilian Portuguese. In this article, we describe the procedures used to translate the DISCERN tool into Brazilian Portuguese and the evaluation of its psychometric properties.…”

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The Brazilian Portuguese Version of the DISCERN Instrument: Translation Procedures and Psychometric Properties

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Torloni

Latorraca

et al. 2019

Value in Health Regional Issues

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DISCERN - ein Instrument zur Bewertung der Qualität von Gesundheitsinformationen

Cited by 6 publications

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Evaluating Written Patient Information for Eczema in German: Comparing the Reliability of Two Instruments, DISCERN and EQIP

Evaluating Written Patient Information for Eczema in German: Comparing the Reliability of Two Instruments, DISCERN and EQIP

Translating and Adapting the DISCERN Instrument Into a Simplified Chinese Version and Validating Its Reliability: Development and Usability Study

The Brazilian Portuguese Version of the DISCERN Instrument: Translation Procedures and Psychometric Properties

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