Validação para o português do "International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Short Form" (ICIQ-SF) Validation of the "International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire - Short Form" (ICIQ-SF) for Portuguese

AbstractObjective To translate into and validate for Portuguese the “International Consultation onIncontinence Questionnaire - Short Form” (ICIQ-SF), a condition-specific quality-of-life questionnaire for patients with urinary incontinence. Methods Two Brazilians independently translated the original ICIQ-SF into Portuguese. Thesetwo translations were harmonized, and then checked by independent back-translationby two native English speakers. The harmonized translation was pre-tested in a pilotstudy on 20 patients. The final version of the ICIQ-SF in Portuguese was applied to123 consecutive patients aged 16 or over (29 males and 94 females) with a complaintof urinary incontinence, who had sought the Department of Urogynecology andUroneurology of the School of Medical Sciences of Unicamp. The Portuguese versionof the King’s Health Questionnaire (KHQ) was also applied to the same group. Thepsychometric properties of the questionnaire, such as reliability and construct validitywere assessed.