SHORT FORMS TO ASSESS LIFE QUALITY AND SYMPTOM DISTRESS FOR URINARY-INCONTINENCE IN WOMEN - THE INCONTINENCE IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE AND THE UROGENITAL DISTRESS INVENTORY
Js. Uebersax et al., SHORT FORMS TO ASSESS LIFE QUALITY AND SYMPTOM DISTRESS FOR URINARY-INCONTINENCE IN WOMEN - THE INCONTINENCE IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE AND THE UROGENITAL DISTRESS INVENTORY, Neurourol. urodyn., 14(2), 1995, pp. 131-139
This article describes short form versions of the Incontinence Impact
Questionnaire (IIQ) and the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI). These
instruments assess life impact and symptom distress, respectively, of
urinary incontinence and related conditions for women. All subsets re
gression analysis was used to find item subsets that best approximated
scores of the long form versions. The approach succeeded in reducing
the 30-item IIQ and the 19-item UDI to 7- and 6-item short forms, resp
ectively. The short form versions may be more useful than the long for
m versions in many clinical and research applications. (C) 1995 Wiley-
Liss, Inc.