• Umut Kara, Fatih Şimşek, Hasan Kamburoğlu, Mehmet Özgür Özhan, Ümit Alakuş, Mehmet Emin İnce, Sami Eksert, Gökhan Özkan, Mehmet Burak Eşkin, and Serkan Şenkal.
• Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.
• Turk J Med Sci. 2022 Apr 1; 52 (2): 427435427-435.

BackgroundThe quality of recovery-15 (QoR-15) is a patient reported outcome questionnaire that measures the quality of recovery after surgery and anesthesia. The QoR-15 has been validated in many languages; Turkish version of the QoR-15 has not yet been established. The aims of this study were to translate the QoR-15 questionnaire into Turkish and to perform a full psychometric evaluation of the Turkish version.MethodsAfter translating the original English version of the QoR-15 scale into Turkish, the QoR-15T scale was psychometrically validated. This process included validity, reliability, responsiveness, feasibility. The QoR-15T was evaluated before the surgery and 24 h after surgery.ResultsA total of 210 patients completed the pre- and postoperative questionnaires, providing a completion rate of 93.75%. The correlation coefficient between QoR-15T score and VAS score was 0.644 on postoperative day 1 (p < 0.001). Inter item Cronbach's alpha was 0.863. Global test-retest concordance coefficient was 0.98 (95% CI: 0.94-1.00).DiscussionThe QoR-15T scale is a reliable and valid instrument for evaluating postoperative quality of recovery in Turkish speaking patients. The psychometric characteristics used to assess postoperative quality of recovery were similar to those in the English version.

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