title: Cultural adaptation of the female pelvic floor questionnaire (FPFQ) into French.
abstract: The Female pelvic floor questionnaire (FPFQ) is a self-administered tool on pelvic floor function. Our aim was to carry out a cultural adaptation of the FPFQ into French and to assess its psychometric properties.
  
  
  
  After cross-cultural adaptation into French, acceptability and reliability of the questionnaire were assessed through a sample of 56 women in a test-retest. Discriminative construct validity was evaluated by comparing the results obtained by the FPFQ to those of other validated questionnaires. Longitudinal follow-up of the 282 pregnant women included in the PreNatal Pelvic floor Prevention trial (3PN) was used to analyze responsiveness.
  
  
  
  The proportion of missing data did not exceed 4% for questions about bladder function, bowel function, and pelvic organ prolapse; 10% for issues related to sexual function. Question 9 was considered difficult to understand by 14% of women. After rewriting, this issue was retested in a new sample of 52 women and presented no further problems. The intra-class correlation coefficient was greater than or equal to 0.7 for all domains during the test-retest. The FPFQ was strongly and significantly correlated (Spearman r > 0.5) with the other validated questionnaires. The French version of FPFQ recorded changes in urinary and sexual symptoms for the women involved in 3PN trial with a standardized response mean equal to 0.83 and 0.44, respectively.
  
  
  
  The French version of the FPFQ is self-administered, reliable, valid, and can detect a change in symptoms during follow-up. Neurourol. Urodynam. 36:253-258, 2017. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Deparis
authors.affiliation: Réseau de Pelvi-Périnéologie, Rééducation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bonniaud
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Desseauve
authors.affiliation: INSERM CIC 1402, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: Joëlle
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guilhot
authors.affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de La Réunion, Saint-Denis, France.
authors.forename: Margot
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masanovic
authors.affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes, Nîmes, France.
authors.forename: Renaud
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de Tayrac
authors.affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Poissy, France.|Research unit EA 7285 (RISCQ), Université Versailles St-Quentin, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France.
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fauconnier
authors.affiliation: Université de Poitiers, Faculté de Médecine et Pharmacie, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.|INSERM CIC 1402, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fritel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017773:Pelvic Floor / Q000503:physiopathology*; D059952:Pelvic Floor Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations
keywords: French; pelvic floor; questionnaire; symptoms; validation studies