title: Validation of a self-administered urological questionnaire.
abstract: Self-administered questionnaires are widely used in clinical practice and as an aid to research. However, their reliability as a means of eliciting symptoms of urological disease has not been established. A questionnaire designed to elicit symptoms of urological disease was validated in 120 patients (36 out-patients, 27 in-patients and 57 community patients). All found the questionnaire acceptable and the completion rate was 99%. Only 3 of 648 answers were changed on the test-retest analysis. Consistency, as assessed by a comparison of responses by clinician and patient, was satisfactory in 11 of 15 questions relating to urological symptoms and the questionnaire successfully identified a high risk group of patients from the community requiring further urological evaluation. The need to include results of a preliminary validation study when reporting results obtained by a self-administered questionnaire is emphasised.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, St Jame's University Hospital, Leeds.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Britton
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Dowell
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Whelan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012648:Self Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*