Reliability of the FSI-10 questionnaire for the assessment of the usability of drug inhalers in Greek patients
Journal Title: Αρχεία Ελληνικής Ιατρικής - Year 2011, Vol 28, Issue 2
Abstract
OBJECTIVE The Feeling of Satisfaction with Inhaler (FSI-10) is a self-completed questionnaire designed to evaluate the opinion of patients about the usability of inhalers and their satisfaction with them. The aim of this study was to validate the Greek version of this questionnaire. METHOD The study group consisted of 422 subjects (192 females) aged between 16 and 87 years, who suffered from asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and who regularly received their treatment exclusively via the inhaled route. All had already achieved mastery of their inhalers and they completed in full the Greek FSI-10 which had been translated from English into Greek by one specialist and back-translated into English by another specialist. RESULTS The Greek version of the FSI-10 was easily understood and completed by all participants. The reliability of the questionnaire as a whole was found to be very satisfactory (Cronbach α=0.923). CONCLUSIONS The reliability of the Greek version of the FSI-10 was confirmed by this study. The instrument fits its purpose very well and may be used in multicentre clinical trials conducted in Greece.
Authors and Affiliations
N. GREKAS, A. ATHANASIOU, C. ISKOS, D. PANAGIOTAKOS, O. PORICHI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP119024
- DOI -
- Views 67
- Downloads 0
Assessment of psychological distress in parents of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus
OBJECTIVE An increased frequency of psychological problems is documented in the parents of children suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of this study was to investigate the psychological distress of the...
Review of the data on acute renal colic and symptomatic uroli
The doctor as a man of letters
No abstract availabl
A 13 year-old girl with recurrent meningitis
No abstract available
Writing scientific articles in health sciences
Research articles are the most common kind of publications in scientific journals and they are about the publication of studies that are conducted by health scientists. Almost all journals in health sciences have adopted...