Reference Values For Facilitating the Interpretation of the ESPRINT-15 Questionnaire (Spanish Version)

Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology

J Mullol  J Alonso  I Antepara²  C Colas⁶  A del Cuvillo¹  I Dávila³  M Ferrer  E Martí-Guadaño⁷  I Izquierdo⁴  AM Navarro-Pulido⁸  J Sastre⁹  E Baró⁵  A Valero 

[1] C Colas,;J Alonso;A del Cuvillo,;E Martí-Guadaño,;J Sastre,;I Antepara,;M Ferrer;I Izquierdo,;AM Navarro-Pulido,

关键词: Spanish version;    Reference values;    Health perception;    Specific questionnaire;    Adults;    Allergic rhinitis;   

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【 摘 要 】

Objective: ESPRINT-15 is a specific, short-form instrument to measure health-related quality of life in adults suffering from allergic rhinitis.
The aim of this study was to obtain reference values in order to improve its interpretability.

Methods: ESPRINT-15 was administered to a representative sample of Spanish adults with allergic rhinitis. Means and percentiles were obtained, taking into account the kind of rhinitis (persistent/intermittent) and symptom severity (very mild/mild/moderate/severe).

Results: A total of 2756 patients participated in the study. Mean (SD) scores were significantly lower (better) for men than for women (2.2 [1.4] vs 2.4 [1.4], P<.001, effect size [ES]≡0.15). Patients with intermittent rhinitisshowed better scores than patients with persistent rhinitis (2.1 [1.4] vs. 2.5 [1.4], P<.001, ES≡0.21). Mean (SD) scores were higher (worse) when severity of symptoms increased, ranging from 0.9 (0.9) (very mild) to 3.7 (1.0) (severe) (ES≡1.0 between each consecutive group of symptom severity).

Conclusions: The magnitude of the differences found among groups of patients reinforces the usefulness of providing reference values stratified by gender, type of allergic rhinitis, and symptom severity. The percentiles obtained can be used in clinical practice to evaluate individual scores, and assign the patient to the corresponding reference group.