Toward an improved assessment of quality of life in endometriosis: evaluation of the Spanish version of the Endometriosis Health Profile 30.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8308648 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1743-8942 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0167482X NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Sept. 2015- : Abingdon, Oxon, UK : Taylor & Francis
Original Publication: Utrecht, the Netherlands : Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, [1982-

Endometriosis*/complications ; Endometriosis*/diagnosis ; Endometriosis*/surgery ; Quality of Life*; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Psychometrics ; Reproducibility of Results ; Surveys and Questionnaires

Purpose: Our main objective is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the EHP-30 questionnaire. The secondary aim is to evaluate the differences in the scores of the core EHP-30 scales between patients with either surgical treatment or conservative management of endometriosis.
Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted into a tertiary hospital endometriosis reference unit. All patients ( n  = 223) pre-surgically completed the core EHP-30 questionnaire, the EQ-5D questionnaire ( n  = 184) and a visual analogue scale ( n  = 210) for endometriosis-related pain. Demographical and clinical data were recorded.
Results: Psychometric characteristics of the Spanish core EHP-30 questionnaire were investigated. Statistical analyses confirmed the five-structure factor, a high degree of internal consistency and of item-total correlation for all the assessed items. Convergent validity between EQ-5D and EHP-30 items and between VAS and EHP-30 subscale pain was observed. Additionally, patients with surgical management rendered significantly higher scores in the core EHP-30 subscales "pain" and "control and powerlessness".
Conclusions: We present the reliability, validity and acceptability of the Spanish core EHP-30 questionnaire, providing clinicians and researchers with an improved tool to assess the endometriosis-related quality of life. Additionally, we show that patients subsidiaries of surgical treatment for endometriosis present with higher pain and powerlessness than those with conservative management.

Keywords: EQ-5D; Endometriosis Health Profile-30; endometriosis; quality of life assessment; visual analogue scale

Date Created: 20200801 Date Completed: 20220923 Latest Revision: 20220927

20240628

10.1080/0167482X.2020.1795827

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