title: FLQAI - A Questionnaire on Quality of Life in Fecal Incontinence: German translation and validation of Rockwood et al.'s (2000) Fecal Incontinence Quality of Life Scale (FIQLS).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study was to produce a German version (FLQAI) of the Fecal Incontinence Quality of Life Scale (FIQLS) by Rockwood et al., an English-language measure of quality of life in fecal incontinence 1. The FIQLS has 29 items assigned to the four subscales of lifestyle, coping/behavior, depression/self-perception and embarrassment.
  
  
  METHODS
  The FIQLS 1 was translated into German and adapted. Indicators of test quality (convergent and discriminant validity, reliability, confirmatory factor analysis) were determined in N = 88 subjects (mean age = 71.5 years) with fecal incontinence and urinary incontinence (control group, n = 29).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three of the four scales of the FLQAI had an acceptable internal reliability. The scales of the FLQAI showed significant correlations with selected subscales of the SF-36 2, the ADS 3 and the FISI 4 (convergent validity). Two of the four scales of the FLQAI discriminated between patients with fecal incontinence and patients with urinary incontinence (discriminant validity). The confirmatory factor analysis did not reveal a uniform fit of the data obtained with the German version with the original four-factor solution of the original version of the questionnaire.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Questionnaire on Quality of Life in Fecal Incontinence (FLQAI) is a German-language self-rating questionnaire with satisfactory psychometric properties for measuring disease-specific quality of life in elderly patients with fecal incontinence.
authors: Medizinische Klinik mit Schwerpunkt Psychosomatik, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. anne.ahnis@charite.de
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Ahnis
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Holzhausen
authors: T H
authors: TH
authors: Rockwood
authors: H-P
authors: HP
authors: Rosemeier
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005242:Fecal Incontinence / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology