Background: The systematic evaluation of the quality of life is essential in the management of patients with chronic bowel disease (IBD) inflammatory diseases. Aim: Translate in Tunisian Arabic dialect the English version of «inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire» (UK-IBDQ) and validated by studying its psychometric validity, discriminative ability, reliability and sensitivity to change. Methods: 80 Tunisian patients with IBD completed the Tunisian version of the IBDQ (T-IBDQ), a visual analog scale, the SF-36, the Harvey-Bradshaw index for Crohn's disease, and the index Simple clinical colitis activity for ulcerative colitis. Results: The T-IBDQ included in the final version 5 fields. The internal validity of the items was satisfactory for all patients. T-IBDQ was correlated with scores of SF- 36, visual analog scale scores and indices of activity of IBD. T-IBDQ distinguish between 1 active disease and inactive disease. He was also sensitive to changes in disease activity.1 Conclusion: We validated in this work a Tunisian dialect Arabic 1 version of the IBDQ: T-IBDQ. Its validity, discriminative ability, reliability and sensitivity to change were demonstrated.

Mnif L, Medhioub M, Boudabbous M, Chtourou L, Amouri A, Tahri N. Tunisian version validation of quality life's questionnaire for chronic inflammatory disease of intestine. Tunisie Medicale. 2013;91(12):685-92.

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