[Tunisian version validation of quality life's questionnaire for chronic inflammatory disease of intestine]

ABSTRACT

The systematic evaluation of the quality of life is essential in the management of patients with chronic bowel disease [IBD] inflammatory diseases. Translate in Tunisian Arabic dialect the English version of "inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire" [UK- IBDQ] and validated by studying its psychometric validity, discriminative ability, reliability and sensitivity to change. 80 Tunisian patients with IBD completed the Tunisian version of the IBDQ [T- IBDQ], a visual analog scale, the SF- 36, the Harvey- Bradshaw index for Crohn's disease, and the index Simple clinical colitis activity for ulcerative colitis. The T- IBDQ included in the final version 5 fields. The internal validity of the items was satisfactory for all patients. TIBDQ was correlated with scores of SF- 36, visual analog scale scores and indices of activity of IBD. T- IBDQ distinguish between active disease and inactive disease. He was also sensitive to changes in disease activity. We validated in this work a Tunisian dialect Arabic version of the IBDQ T- IBDQ. Its validity, discriminative ability, reliability and sensitivity to change were demonstrated