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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
Published on: February 2, 2020
GO-QOL--disease-specific quality of life questionnaire in Graves' orbitopathy
Nadia Sawicka-Gutaj1, Tomasz Bednarczuk, Jacek Daroszewski
1Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Internal Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland. nyha@o2.pl.
Abstract:
The main goal of therapy for Graves' orbitopathy (GO) is to restore visual function and to improve quality of life (QOL); therefore, the idea of self-assessment of eye changes by the patient has been developed. We developed a validated Polish version of the GO-QOL questionnaire (GO-QOLpl). As an original version we used the English version of GO-QOL, which consists of 15 questions summarised in two subscales. GO-QOLpl was translated and validated in accordance with standard principles for translation of patient-reported outcomes (PRO). GO-QOLpl is a linguistically validated version of the original GO-QOL questionnaire, which is recommended by the European Group of Graves' Orbitopathy (EUGOGO). We strongly support the use of GO-QOLpl for the assessment of QOL among Polish patients with GO in clinical practice.
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