Validación facial y adaptación transcultural del cuestionario calidad de vida relacionada con apnea obstructiva del sueño

Abstract

Introduction: The objective of the present investigation was validate and create the linguistic adaptation in Colombia of the Sleep Apnea Quality of Life Index (SAQLI) instrument, of the Iberian Spanish version of the questionnaire to evaluate the quality of life in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHOS). This work represents the possibility of having a support to evaluate the quality of life of patients with SAHOS. Materials and methods: 3 expert judges were included, even 51 patients diagnosed with SAHOS and under treatment attending the clinical surgical center in the city of Bucaramanga, who accepted their participation through informed consent and answered a questionnaire created by the researchers that evaluate the understanding, relevance and syntax of each question, and making the necessary observations of the SAQLI questionnaire. Results: The mean age of the participants was 44.3 ± 10.4 years and the majority were women (66.67%). Also, 39.22% of the participants were employees of companies from different areas, followed by independent workers with a percentage of 33.33%. In general the understanding of the questions was adequate, although the participants proposed to change specific words between the sentences and specified that the questions should have more clarity or specificity to generate certain questions. Furthermore, they propose to simplify and better formulate some questions to facilitate their understanding and relevance according to the Colombian lexicon. Conclusions: The expected results in terms of facial validation were obtained and shown that the items in the questionnaire are mostly understandable and applicable. It was necessary to modify certain phrases to the Colombian dialect and correct certain statements according to the observations and suggestions made so that the methodology of the questionnaire was more easily understood.