PMID- 23468169
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140623
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1573-2649 (Electronic)
IS  - 0962-9343 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 9
DP  - 2013 Nov
TI  - Comparative responsiveness and minimal change of the Knee Quality of Life 26-item 
      (KQoL-26) questionnaire.
PG  - 2461-75
LID - 10.1007/s11136-012-0298-0 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: To assess the responsiveness of the KQoL-26 and demonstrate minimal 
      change for this instrument in two different samples of patients with suspected 
      internal derangement of the knee. METHODS: Data were collected from two surveys 
      conducted alongside a clinical trial: the arthroscopy sample and the general 
      practitioner (GP) sample. The effect size (ES) was used to assess responsiveness. 
      Anchor-based minimal change included minimal clinical important difference (MCID) 
      and receiver operator characteristic curves; standardized error of measurement 
      and minimal detectable change (MDC) was employed for distribution-based 
      approaches. The KQoL-26 results are compared with those for the Lysholm Knee 
      Score, EQ-5D and SF-36. RESULTS: The arthroscopy sample consisted of 121 
      participants and the GP sample of 218 participants at baseline. The largest ES 
      was found for the KQoL-26 emotional functioning scale in both samples. The 
      results were in favour of the condition-specific instrument. The MCID for KQoL-26 
      physical functioning, activities limitations and emotional functioning scales 
      were 3, 15 and 18, respectively, in the arthroscopy sample; they were 11, 16 and 
      24 in the GP sample. The MDC 95 % was estimated as 18, 28 and 34, and 15, 24 and 
      30 in each sample, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The KQoL-26 emotional functional 
      scale was the most responsive of all scales. It is recommended that an instrument 
      such as the KQoL-26 that includes emotional functioning should be included rather 
      than the Lysholm in future clinical trials of patients with suspected internal 
      derangement of the knee.
FAU - Chuang, Ling-Hsiang
AU  - Chuang LH
AD  - York Trials Unit, Department of Health Sciences, York, UK.
FAU - Garratt, Andrew
AU  - Garratt A
FAU - Brealey, Stephen
AU  - Brealey S
LA  - eng
GR  - G0001133/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130307
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Qual Life Res
JT  - Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of 
      treatment, care and rehabilitation
JID - 9210257
SB  - IM
MH  - Arthroscopy
MH  - Data Collection
MH  - Disability Evaluation
MH  - *Emotions
MH  - Female
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - General Practitioners/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Knee Injuries/*physiopathology/surgery
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Psychometrics/*instrumentation
MH  - *Quality of Life
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2013/03/08 06:00
MHDA- 2014/06/24 06:00
CRDT- 2013/03/08 06:00
PHST- 2012/10/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/03/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/03/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/06/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s11136-012-0298-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Qual Life Res. 2013 Nov;22(9):2461-75. doi: 10.1007/s11136-012-0298-0. Epub 2013 
      Mar 7.