Validation of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI-20) and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ-7) in a Dutch population

Abstract

For assessing distress and health-related quality of life of pelvic floor dysfunction, the Dutch PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7 are reliable and valid in the general Dutch population, and also responsive and interpretable among tertiary care-seeking women.

Validation of the short forms of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI-20), Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ-7), and Pelvic Organ Prolapse/Urinary Incontinence Sexual Questionnaire (PISQ-12) in Finnish

“…Our results show psychometric validity for PFDI-20 questionnaire and are comparable with previous validation studies [8–10]. In our study, PFIQ-7 had some limitations whereas Teleman et al found acceptable psychometric properties in the Swedish version of PFIQ-7 [9].…”

Responsiveness of the Spanish Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaires Short Forms (PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7) in women with pelvic floor disorders

“…Age (years, X(SD)) 53.7(9.7) Parity (Md(IQR)) 2(1) Body mass index (X(SD)) 27 Dutch have studied the responsiveness of PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7 [2,9,11,13,14]. In the present study many similar results were found when compared to the other responsiveness studies.…”

“…Regarding these findings, the experience shows that women often indicate that the urinary symptoms have more impact than POP symptoms, which is consistent with the results found in the present study. Furthermore, in both questionnaires, the subscales that demonstrated less responsiveness were the colorectal-anal subscales; in the other validation studies the urinary and POP subscales also demonstrated more responsiveness than the colo-rectal scales [2,9,11,13,14]. This may be because in the sample of this study the smallest clinic percentage was for women with colorectal-anal symptoms, and a specific clinic has the largest changes in the subscales that assess this clinic was accepted (for example, the UI have more changes in UDI and UIQ) [30].…”

“…The PFDI-20 and the PFIQ-7 are two specific questionnaires that are recommended to measure the symptoms and QoL in women with PFD [26][27][28]. Both questionnaires have been adapted and validated in their original language and later translated and validated in several languages [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. However, only the original, Turkish, Greek, Danish and Table 2 Scoring PFIQ-7.…”

“…Both questionnaires have been validated in different languages such as French, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish in Hispanic speakers from USA, Spanish for speakers in Spain and, recently, Japanese, Danish, Greek and Dutch [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. The cultural adaptation and validation questionnaire is cheaper than creating new questionnaires and it allows researchers to carry out comparisons among countries.…”