Validation of the SF-36 questionnaire in adults with asthma and allergic rhinitis in Mexican population

Luis Enrique Martínez-Hernández; Nora Hilda Segura-Méndez; Abdiel Antonio-Ocampo; Augusto Torres-Salazar; Erika Murillo-Gómez

2010, Number 5

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Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc 2010; 48 (5)

Validation of the SF-36 questionnaire in adults with asthma and allergic rhinitis in Mexican population

Martínez-Hernández LE, Segura-Méndez NH, Antonio-Ocampo A, Torres-Salazar A, Murillo-Gómez E

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ABSTRACT

Background: multiple questionnaires demonstrated the effect of the disease on the Quality of Life (QL), especially on allergies. Asthma and allergic rhinitis contributes to the reduction of QL. One of the accepted instruments for the evaluation of QL in chronic diseases is the questionnaire SF-36 (SF-36). Our objective was to validate the SF-36 in Mexican asthmatic with allergic rhinitis adult patients.
Methods: Fifty asthmatic patients with allergic rhinitis participated. They were placed according to the severity of their asthma (GINA 2004) and of allergic rhinitis (ARIA). The SF-36 was applied. The results were analyzed by descriptive statistics and validation by internal consistency through the Cronbach’s test.
Results: it was observed that greater deterioration of QL in asthmatic patients with allergic rhinitis is directly related with the severity of their disease. Greater deterioration was observed on physical nature and of the perception of health. The aspect less affected was the social function and mental health. The Cronbach’s test showed a coefficient of global realiability of 0.9314.
Conclusions: the results obtained for the validation of SF-36, through the Cronbach’s test in the population studied allows their use for later studies.

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