PMID- 18060843
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20081106
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1474-5151 (Print)
IS  - 1474-5151 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 3
DP  - 2008 Sep
TI  - Psychometric properties of a Swedish version of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy 
      Questionnaire in a Chronic Heart Failure population.
PG  - 214-21
AB  - BACKGROUND: Valid assessments of health-related Quality of Life (HRQL) are 
      increasingly important in chronic, incurable conditions, such as chronic heart 
      failure (CHF). AIMS: To evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swedish version 
      of the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) in hospitalized patients 
      with decompensated CHF. METHOD AND RESULTS: The KCCQ and SF-36 were administered 
      to patients (n=118) with CHF at baseline and then 1 (n=51) and 4 months (n=83) 
      after admission. The Swedish version of the KCCQ appears to have acceptable 
      convergent and discriminant validity for all suggested health domains. Cronbach's 
      alpha and test-retest reliability met for most of the scales the minimum of 0.70. 
      Known-groups comparison indicated that the KCCQ discriminated between patients 
      differing in the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification (criterion 
      validity). The KCCQ was also more responsive to changes in the NYHA 
      classification as compared with the SF-36. However, KCCQ has some weakness in the 
      response distributions for two questions and the convergent validity in one 
      question. CONCLUSION: Overall, the KCCQ is a valid and reliable instrument in a 
      Swedish CHF population. It yields reliable and valid scores and is quite 
      responsive to clinical change.
FAU - Patel, Harshida
AU  - Patel H
AD  - Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg 
      University, Sweden. Harshidaben.patel@vgregion.se
FAU - Ekman, Inger
AU  - Ekman I
FAU - Spertus, John A
AU  - Spertus JA
FAU - Wasserman, Scott M
AU  - Wasserman SM
FAU - Persson, Lars-Olof
AU  - Persson LO
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20071203
PL  - England
TA  - Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs
JT  - European journal of cardiovascular nursing
JID - 101128793
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Chronic Disease
MH  - Female
MH  - *Health Status
MH  - *Heart Failure/nursing
MH  - Humans
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - *Quality of Life
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Sweden
EDAT- 2007/12/07 09:00
MHDA- 2008/11/07 09:00
CRDT- 2007/12/07 09:00
PHST- 2007/06/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/08/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2007/08/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/12/07 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/11/07 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/12/07 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S1474-5151(07)00221-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ejcnurse.2007.08.005 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2008 Sep;7(3):214-21. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcnurse.2007.08.005. 
      Epub 2007 Dec 3.