The Norwegian version of the Severe Respiratory Insufficiency Questionnaire

Abstract

The aims of this study were to translate and adapt the Severe Respiratory Insufficiency (SRI) questionnaire into Norwegians and to test its reliability and validity.Data were collected from a cross-sectional survey and were linked to the Norwegian Registry of patients receiving long-term mechanical ventilation (LTMV). Of 193 potential participants, 127 responded to the SRI questionnaire. Reliability as measured with Cronbach's α varied between 0.68 and 0.88 for the subscales and was 0.94 for SRI-sum score. Construct validity was obtained with high correlations between subscales in SF-36 and SRI. The SRI questionnaire discriminated well between universally accepted clinical differences among categories of patients receiving LTMV by significant dissimilarities in SRI-sum score and SRI subscales. The Norwegian version of SRI has well-documented psychometric properties regarding reliability and validity. It might be used in clinical practice and in international studies for assessing health-related quality of life in patients receiving LTMV.

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“…Validity and reliability in quality of life research has been discussed (Macduff, 2000;Moons et al, 2006). Good validity and international relevance of this study is provided by using the SRI questionnaire, that has shown very good psychometric qualities and has been professionally adapted and translated into several languages (Duiverman, Wempe, Bladder, Kerstjens, & Wijkstra, 2008;Ghosh, Rzehak, Elliott, Windisch, 2012;Huttmann et al, 2015, p. 280;L opez-Campos et al, 2008;MacIntyre et al, 2016;Markussen et al, 2015;Oga et al, 2017;Ribeiro, Ferreira, Conde, Oliveira, & Windisch, 2017;Struik et al, 2013;Windisch, 2008;Windisch et al, 2003). Reliability and rigour are provided through high-quality clinical data from the LTMV registry.…”

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“…The respiratory failure is due to various underlying diseases (19). Seven publications (19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) have described development and validation of the instrument (table 2). The samples of two publications (19,22) overlap in part, and data for structural validity and internal consistency is thus taken from the Windisch et al study (22).…”

“…The Norwegian version of SRI was pilot tested among users of LTMV (25), and the content validity is probably very good (table 5).…”

“…There is nevertheless uncertainty attached to the structural validity (table 5), first and foremost due to methodological limitations in the studies where this is assessed. «Many patients with advanced serious disease experience breathlessness.» SRI is the only instrument of the four included in our review that is available in a Norwegian version (25). We therefore wished to evaluate the cross-cultural validity of the Norwegian version.…”

“…SRI (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) showed overall positive properties for internal consistency (table 4); however, due to methodological limitations, uncertainties attach to the total documentation (table 5).…”