title: Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Language Version of the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Patients receiving treatment for benign prostate hyperplasia may have persistent storage symptoms. There has been increasing debate on the precision and accuracy of the International Prostate Symptom Score questionnaires over other questionnaires in evaluating all the complaints of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). The aim of this study was to perform the validity and reliability analysis of the Turkish version of the Internatinal Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Male LUTS (ICIQ-MLUTS).
  
  
  METHODS
  Linguistic validation was studied (i.e., translation and back translation). Intelligibility was completed between October 2013 and November 2013. Data was collected between November 2013 and March 2014. The stability and reliability of the form were measured with the Cronbach test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total, 117 male patients were included in the study. At the first visit, the mean age of the patients was 59 years (range, 18-84 years). For reliability, the Cronbach alpha value was 0.798, demonstrating the internal consistency of the form (r>0.7). The internal consistency of each question was examined separately and found to be over 0.7. For the evaluation of test-retest reliability, the test was administered to 116 patients for a second time with an interval of 2-4 weeks. The first and second test scores for each question were found to be correlated (r=0.741).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ICIQ-MLUTS is a new questionnaire, which can be used for evaluating male LUTS in Turkey. We believe that the Turkish version of the ICIQ-MLUTS is an important breakthrough in our country.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Izmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oğuz
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9918-6620
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mertoğlu
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oktay
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7912-0408
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Üçer
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Izmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yasin
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6469-4572
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ceylan
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ozan
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7662-0092
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bozkurt
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Izmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bülent
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2496-7457
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Günlüsoy
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ali Can
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7725-1241
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Albaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ömer
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3070-8571
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Demir
keywords: Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms; Male; Questionnaire; Validation