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Development and validation of the vision-related dizziness questionnaireArmstrong, Deborah, Alderson, Alison J., Davey, Christopher J., Elliott, David 29 May 2018 (has links)
Yes / Purpose: To develop and validate the first patient-reported outcome measure (PROM)
to quantify vision-related dizziness. Dizziness is a common, multifactorial syndrome that
causes reductions in quality of life and is a major risk factor for falls, but the role of vision
is not well understood.
Methods: Potential domains and items were identified by literature review and discussions
with experts and patients to form a pilot PROM, which was completed by 335
patients with dizziness. Rasch analysis was used to determine the items with good
psychometric properties to include in a final PROM, to check undimensionality, differential
item functioning, and to convert ordinal questionnaire data into continuous interval
data. Validation of the final 25-item instrument was determined by its convergent validity,
patient, and item-separation reliability and unidimensionality using data from 223 patients
plus test–retest repeatability from 79 patients.
results: 120 items were originally identified, then subsequently reduced to 46 to form
a pilot PROM. Rasch analysis was used to reduce the number of items to 25 to produce
the vision-related dizziness or VRD-25. Two subscales of VRD-12-frequency and
VRD-13-severity were shown to be unidimensional, with good psychometric properties.
Convergent validity was shown by moderately good correlations with the Dizziness
Handicap Inventory (r = 0.75) and good test–retest repeatability with intra-class correlation
coefficients of 0.88.
conclusion: VRD-25 is the only PROM developed to date to assess vision-related
dizziness. It has been developed using Rasch analysis and provides a PROM for this
under-researched area and for clinical trials of interventions to reduce vision-related
dizziness. / College of Optometrists (UK) research studentship.
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