• Curr Med Res Opin · Dec 2023

    Adaptation and validation of the PAC19-QoL specific quality of life questionnaire for the Spanish population with Long COVID.

    • Irene Marcilla-Toribio, Maria Martinez-Andres, Maria Leopolda Moratalla-Cebrian, Ravi Jandhyala, Omolade Femi-Ajao, and Eva Maria Galan-Moya.
    • Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha, Facultad de Enfermería de Albacete, Edificio Benjamín Palencia, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, Spain.
    • Curr Med Res Opin. 2023 Dec 1; 39 (12): 168516931685-1693.

    IntroductionThe post-acute (long) COVID-19 Quality of Life instrument is the only specific instrument designed to assess the quality of life in long COVID patients. The present study aims to make a transcultural adaptation and validation into Spanish of the disease-specific (long COVID) quality of life instrument, post-acute (long) COVID-19 Quality of Life, to have a tool for objective measurement of quality of life in this population.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional study was divided into two phases. In phase one, the translation and cultural adaptation of the questionnaire was performed, while in phase two, the questionnaire was validated. The Spanish version of the questionnaire was used with a sample of 206 people, 40 males (19.4%) and 166 females (80.6%), with an age range between 21 and 70 years old. Participants completed the questionnaire through an online platform. Internal consistency, construct validity, convergent validity, test-retest reliability, and ceiling and floor effects of the Spanish version were analyzed.ResultsThe Spanish version of the post-acute (long) COVID-19 Quality of Life instrument showed high internal consistency, with Cronbach's alpha= 0.922 and an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.936. Mean scores obtained in the PAC-19QoL and SF-12 questionnaires showed that those who had a worse quality of life in the SF-12 tool also a had worse quality of life in the PAC-19QoL tool.ConclusionsThis study shows that the Spanish version of the post-acute (long) COVID-19 Quality of Life instrument is an appropriate and valid tool for assessing the quality of life of long COVID patients.

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