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[Adaptation of Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale to Turkish: a validity and reliability study]
Hilal Uysal1, Seyda Ozcan, Nuray Enç
1Istanbul Universitesi Florence Nightingale Hemşirelik Yüksekokulu Iç Hastaliklari Hemşireliği Anabilim Dali, Istanbul, Turkey. hilaluysal@gmail.com
Objectives:
It is well known that myocardial infarction (MI) adversely affects health-related quality of life. This study was designed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish adaptation of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS) in patients admitted to hospital following their first MI.
Study Design:
The study included 81 patients (13 women, 68 men; age
Results:
The participants fell within the following age brackets: 30-44 years (9.9%), 45-54 years (40.7%), 55-64 years (27.2%), and 65-70 years (22.2%). Content validity index of the scale was 0.95. The overall Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated as 0.83, ranging from 0.31 to 0.91 for seven subscales. Item-total correlations were between 0.31 and 0.91. The overall test-retest reliability was 0.45 (p=0.00), ranging from 0.27 to 0.74 for seven subscales.
Conclusion:
This has been the third study evaluating the MIDAS in MI patients. Our results demonstrate that the Turkish version of the MIDAS can be used as a valid and reliable tool in the evaluation of disease-specific quality of life of Turkish patients sustaining their first MI.
