Aims: To develop and evaluate the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ), a new questionnaire to assess urinary incontinence and its impact on quality of life (QoL). Methods: A developmental version of the questionnaire was produced following systematic literature review and views of an expert committee and patients. Several studies were undertaken to evaluate the psychometric properties of the questionnaire, including content, construct and convergent validity, reliability and sensitivity to change. Results: The ICIQ was easily completed, with low levels of missing data (mean 1.6%). It was able to discriminate among diierent groups of individuals, indicating good construct validity. Convergent validity was acceptable, with most items demonstrating ‘moderate’ to ‘strong’ agreement with other questionnaires. Reliability was good, with ‘moderate’ to ‘very good’ stability in test-retest analysis and a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.95. Items identi¢ed statistically signi¢cant reductions in symptoms from baseline following surgical and conservative treatment. Item reduction techniques were used to determine the ¢nal version and scoring scheme, which also demonstrated good psychometric properties. Conclusions: The ¢nal ICIQ comprises three scored items and an unscored self-diagnostic item. It allows the assessment of the prevalence, frequency, and perceived cause of urinary incontinence, and its impact on everyday life. The ICIQ is a brief and robust questionnaire that will be of use in outcomes and epidemiological research as well as routine clinical practice. Neurourol. Urodynam. 23:322 ^330, 2004. 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

ICIQ: a brief and robust measure for evaluating the symptoms and impact of urinary incontinence.

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 regression 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, respectively. The short form versions may be more useful than the long form versions in many clinical and research applications.

Short forms to assess life quality and symptom distress for urinary incontinence in women: the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire and the Urogenital Distress Inventory. Continence Program for Women Research Group.

Pelvic organ prolapse in the Women's Health Initiative: gravity and gravidity.

https://patientreportedoutcomes.ca/files/2014/04/PFDI-20-PFIQ-7-Barber-20041.pdf

Short forms of two condition-specific quality-of-life questionnaires for women with pelvic floor disorders (PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7).

A new questionnaire to assess the quality of life of urinary incontinent women

Urinary incontinence (UI) is a relatively common condition in middle-aged and older women Traditional measures of symptoms do not adequately capture the impact that UI has on individuals' lives Further, severe morbidity and mortality are not associated with this condition Rather, Ul's impact is primarily on the health status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of women Generic measures of HRQOL inadequately address the impact of the condition on the day-to-day lives of women with UI The current paper presents data on two new condition-specific instruments designed to assess the HRQOL of UI in women: the Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI) and the Incontinence Impact Questionaire (IIQ) Used in conjunction with one another, these two measures provide detailed information on how UI affects the lives of women The measures provide data on the more traditional view of HRQOL by assessing the impact of UI on various activities, roles and emotional states (IIQ), as well as data on the less traditional but critical issue of the degree to which symptoms associated with UI are troubling to women (UDI) Data on the reliability, validity and sensitivity to change of these measures demonstrate that they are psychometrically strong Further, they have been developed for simple, self-administration

Health-related quality of life measures for women with urinary incontinence: the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire and the Urogenital Distress Inventory. Continence Program in Women (CPW) Research Group.

Psychosocial impact of urinary incontinence in women.

Estrogen therapy in the management of urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis. First report of the Hormones and Urogenital Therapy Committee.

J A Fantl

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Short forms to assess life quality and symptom distress for urinary incontinence in women: the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire and the Urogenital Distress Inventory. Continence Program for Women Research Group.

Health-related quality of life measures for women with urinary incontinence: the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire and the Urogenital Distress Inventory. Continence Program in Women (CPW) Research Group.

Psychosocial impact of urinary incontinence in women.

Estrogen therapy in the management of urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis. First report of the Hormones and Urogenital Therapy Committee.

Efficacy of estrogen supplementation in the treatment of urinary incontinence