TY  - JOUR
TI  - Reliability and Validity Study of Turkish
Version of Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Symptom
Scores® (Tr-PEESS v2.0) Led to Development of a New
Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Scale: GaziESAS
AB  - Background: There has been no valid and reliable Turkish scale that measures symptoms in children with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE).
The aim of the study is to test the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Symptom Scores®
(Tr-PEESS v2.0).
Methods: Relevant forms of Tr-PEESS v2.0 were applied to 2-18 years old children with EoE and to their parents. KINDL QoL patient
and parent questionnaires and the GaziESAS scale developed in this study were used to test the convergent validity of Tr-PEESS v2.0.
Discriminant validity was evaluated among 3 EoE treatment groups: under treatment, off treatment due to remission, and uncompliant
with treatment. Reliability was evaluated by internal consistency, test–retest reliability, and item analysis.
Results: Fifty-two children/teens (mean age 130.2 ± 60.3 months) and 84 parents were interviewed twice one week apart. The mean
duration of EoE was 47.2 ± 35.6 months. Tr-PEESS v2.0 reports correlated with GaziESAS (range 0.361-0.855) and KINDL QoL questionnaires (range −0.316 to 0.413). Parent report of Tr-PEESS v2.0 discriminated children uncompliant with treatment from the ones off
treatment and undertreatment. Cronbach’s α values and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) values of Tr-PEESS v2.0 ranged from
0.614-0. 895 and 0.646-0.910, respectively.
Conclusion: Tr-PEESS v2.0 is a valid and reliable tool to use in Turkish children. GaziESAS is a new parent-proxy pediatric EoE scale with
an additional adaptive behavior domain that passed scale developmental stages successfully for Turkish children with EoE.
Keywords: Children, eosinophilic esophagitis, reliability, scale, validity
AU  - DALGIÇ, Buket
AU  - İLHAN, Mustafa Necmi
AU  - Yapar, Dilek
AU  - Egritas Gurkan, Odul
AU  - BAKIRTAS, ARZU
AU  - Ertoy Karagol, Hacer Ilbilge
AU  - Sarı, Sinan
DO  - 10.5152/tjg.2020.20674
PY  - 2021
JO  - Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology
VL  - 32
IS  - 4
SN  - 1300-4948
SP  - 363
EP  - 373
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/510793
ER  -