Translation and Validation of the ICIQ-B in Danish

NCT ID: NCT06193395

Last Updated: 2024-01-05

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

238 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-10-01

Study Completion Date

2022-12-31

Brief Summary

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There are no validated scores in Danish revealing symptoms related to anal incontinence (AI). The International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire-Bowel (ICIQ-B) is an internationally recommended questionnaire that contains 21 items of which 17 are scored in three subscales: Bowel pattern; Bowel control and Quality of life. The aim was to translate and validate the ICIQ-B into Danish. The translation will be performed by a multidisciplinary team and the investigators will perform cognitive interviews and online testing of the questionnaire. The study only involves testing of a questionnaire and will not interfere with patient treatment.

Detailed Description

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Background Anal incontinence (AI) is defined as the "complaint of involuntary loss of feces or flatus" and can significantly impact quality of life. Population studies have shown that 8-9% of adults suffer from AI with an equal distribution among men and women. There are different Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) regarding AI, but "the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Anal Incontinence Symptoms and Quality of Life Module" (ICIQ-B), first published in 2011, involved patients in the development of the questionnaire. The ICIQ-B is recommended by the International Consultation of Incontinence for both research and clinical use. There are no validated PROMs regarding AI in Danish, and therefore, the aim of this study was to translate and validate the ICIQ-B in Danish patients with pelvic floor disorders (PFD) with and without known AI.

Material and methods The ICIQ-B score contains 21 items and 17 of the 21 items are scored items. Each item is scored in an ordinal scale and each item contains a bother score rated on a numeric rank scale (NRS). The scored items are divided into three subscales covering: Bowel pattern (0-21), bowel control (0-28) and Quality of life (0-26) with a higher score indicating more symptoms.

We will recruit respondents from outpatient clinics in three hospitals in Denmark.

Inclusion criteria

* ≥ 18 years of age
* Fluency in Danish
* Referred to a pelvic floor clinic or to an outpatient clinic for a PFD or a routine follow-up

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive disabilities that cause inability to complete a questionnaire

After translation of the questionnaire by an expert panel, the investigators will perform interviews, pretesting and test-retest. Healthcare professionals will inform patients about the study and hand out written patient information containing a QR-code and a weblink to access the questionnaire in REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture). Informed consent will be given electronically. No physical examination will be performed as part of this study.

The hypotheses are that the ICIQ-B can discriminate between patients suffering from AI from patients without AI and that it will correlate moderately with a widely used AI score (St Marks score).

The investigators will evaluate content validity with floor and ceiling effect, structural validity of the three subscales, convergent validity (by correlating the ICIQ-B scores with the St. Marks score) and discriminant validity by comparing subscale scores between patients with and without known AI. The study will also evaluate reliability by evaluating internal consistency of the ICIQ-B subscales

Statistics Descriptive statistics will be used to show distribution of data about gender, age, and diagnoses. Analyses to compare groups will be performed using non-parametric statistical analyses. A level of significance with a p-value of ≤0.05 will be used. The analyses will be performed in SPSS.

Ethical considerations All participants will receive oral and written information about the study and sign an informed consent. Permission to perform the study is given from the Danish Data Protection Agency (VD-2020-04). The Regional Ethics committee confirmed that no permission from the committee was needed, since the study does not involve treatment of patients.

Conditions

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Anal Incontinence Pelvic Floor Disorders Quality of Life Anal Sphincter Tear

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Patients referred due to Pelvic Floor Disorders including anal incontinence

all patients with PFDs are eligible

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Questionnaire

Intervention Type OTHER

No intervention, only clinical testing of questionnaire

Interventions

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Questionnaire

No intervention, only clinical testing of questionnaire

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* ≥ 18 years of age
* Fluency in Danish

Exclusion Criteria

* Cognitive disabilities that cause inability to complete a questionnaire
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Hanna Jangö

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Hanna Jangö

MD, PhD, Associate Professor

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Hanna Jangö

Herlev, , Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

Other Identifiers

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VD-2020-04

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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