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Translation and Validation of Enhanced Asian Rome III Questionnaires in Bengali Language for Diagnosis of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility ; : 240-247, 2016.
Article in English | WPRIM | ID: wpr-84974
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND/

AIMS:

Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs), diagnosed by symptom-based criteria due to lack of biomarkers, need translated-validated questionnaires in different languages. As Bengali, the mother tongue of Bangladesh and eastern India, is the seventh most spoken language in the world, we translated and validated the Enhanced Asian Rome III questionnaire (EAR3Q) in this language.

METHODS:

The EAR3Q was translated in Bengali as per guideline from the Rome Foundation. The translated questionnaire was validated prospectively on Bengali-speaking healthy subjects (HS, n = 30), and patients with functional dyspepsia (FD, n = 35), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS, n = 40) and functional constipation (FC, n = 12) diagnosed by clinicians using the Rome III criteria. The subjects were asked to fill-in the questionnaire again after 2 weeks, to check for its reproducibility.

RESULTS:

During translation, the original and the backward translated English versions of the questionnaire demonstrated high concordance. Sensitivity of the Bengali questionnaire to diagnose patients with FD, IBS, FC, and HS was 100%, 100%, 75%, and 100%, respectively, considering diagnosis by the clinicians as the gold standard. On test-retest reliability analysis, Kappa values for FD, IBS, FC, and HS were 1.0, 1.0, 0.83, and 1.0, respectively. The Bengali questionnaire detected considerable overlap of FD symptoms among patients with IBS, IBS among patients with FD, and FD among patients with FC, which were not detected by the clinicians.

CONCLUSIONS:

We successfully translated and validated the EAR3Q in Bengali. We believe that this translated questionnaire will be useful for clinical evaluation and research on FGIDs in the Bengali-speaking population.
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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Tongue / Bangladesh / Biomarkers / Prospective Studies / Constipation / Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Asian People / Diagnosis / Dyspepsia / Gastrointestinal Diseases Type of study: Diagnostic study / Practice guideline / Observational study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: Asia Language: English Journal: Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility Year: 2016 Type: Article

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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Tongue / Bangladesh / Biomarkers / Prospective Studies / Constipation / Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Asian People / Diagnosis / Dyspepsia / Gastrointestinal Diseases Type of study: Diagnostic study / Practice guideline / Observational study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: Asia Language: English Journal: Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility Year: 2016 Type: Article