Psychometric Properties of Gujarati Translate...

Psychometric Properties of Gujarati Translated Version of Stroke Specific Quality Of Life (SS-QOL) Scale

Author Name : Dr. Mruganshi Mehta, Dr. Mihirdev Jhala

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56025/IJARESM.2022.1011221208

 

ABSTRACT

Background: Stroke Specific Quality of Life (SS-QOL) Scale appears to be the most complete measure for assessing social participation among stroke survivors. Responsive Health related quality of life (HRQOL) measure of stroke would be useful in evaluating treatment efficacy in patients with different deficits and assessing the impact of various types of stroke on HRQOL. So, the purpose of this study was to establish a dependable and legitimate Gujarati version of SS-QOL by translation.

Methodology:  An observational study was conducted in the Ahmedabad city. The scale was translated into Gujarati language through double forward and backward translation. Each question was scored by experts as accepted, rejected or accepted with modification. The reliability and validity of the finalized Gujarati version was subsequently completed with the sample size of 20 participants with sub-acute and chronic stroke. Face and content validity along with internal consistency and test-retest reliability was also examined.

Result: The Gujarati version of SS-QOL has high internal consistency (Cronbach’s α=0.961) and test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation coefficient=0.961, 95% CI: 0.58, 0.94).

Conclusion: Translation of SS-QOL into the Gujarati version was successful in preserving the semantic and the measurement properties of the original SS-QOL scale and was shown to be valid and reliable scale to be used in Gujarati population.

Keywords: [Reliability,Stroke,Stroke specific quality of life (SS-QOL).]