The Mayo Clinic Vestibular Schwannoma Quality of Life (VSQOL) Index is a disease-specific instrument for assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with sporadic vestibular schwannoma (VS). To date, there is no validated Italian version of this questionnaire....
Italian-speaking clinicians and researchers can now use the validated Italian VSQOL Index; no practice change is implied for non-Italian-speaking clinicians.
A validated Italian-language quality-of-life tool for vestibular schwannoma (a type of benign tumour near the hearing nerve) expands multinational research capacity and improves patient-centred outcome measurement in this population.
- 01Mayo Clinic VSQOL Index translated into Italian and cross-culturally adapted.
- 02Validation study confirms the Italian version is reliable and valid for clinical use.
- 03Enables Italian-speaking centres to measure quality of life in vestibular schwannoma patients consistently.
- 04Published in Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica.
- 05Primarily a psychometric validation study; no new treatment or intervention is evaluated.
The Italian-translated VSQOL Index demonstrates acceptable reliability and validity in Italian-speaking vestibular schwannoma patients.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42325181
- DOI
- 10.14639/0392-100X-A1549.
- Journal
- Acta Otorhinolaryngologica Italica
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Italian-speaking patients with vestibular schwannoma
- Intervention
- Italian translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Mayo Clinic VSQOL Index
- Comparator
- Original English-language Mayo Clinic VSQOL Index
Primary outcomes
Reliability of the Italian VSQOL translation; Validity of the Italian VSQOL translation; Cross-cultural equivalence with the original instrument