Reliability and Validity of a Korean Version of the Leicester Cough Questionnaire
- Authors
- Kwon, Jae-Woo; Moon, Ji-Yong; Kim, Sae-Hoon; Song, Woo-Jung; Kim, Min-Hye; Kang, Min-Gyu; Lim, Kyung-Hwan; Lee, So-Hee; Lee, Sang Min; Lee, Jin Young; Kwon, Hyouk-Soo; Kim, Kyung-Mook; Kim, Sang-Heon; Kim, Sang-Hoon; Jeong, Jae-Won; Kim, Cheol-Woo; Cho, Sang-Heon; Lee, Byung-Jae
- Issue Date
- May-2015
- Publisher
- KOREAN ACAD ASTHMA ALLERGY & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
- Keywords
- Cough; questionnaires; quality of life; chronic disease
- Citation
- ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH, v.7, no.3, pp.230 - 233
- Journal Title
- ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH
- Volume
- 7
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 230
- End Page
- 233
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/10567
- DOI
- 10.4168/aair.2015.7.3.230
- ISSN
- 2092-7355
- Abstract
- Purpose: There are no specific tools for measurement of the severity of chronic cough in Korea. We developed a Korean version of the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ) and tested its scaling and clinical properties. Methods: The LCQ was adapted for Korean conditions following a forward-backward translation procedure. All patients referred to chronic cough clinics at 5 university hospitals between May 2011 and October 2013 completed 2 questionnaires, the LCQ and the Short-Form 36 (SF-36), upon presentation and completed the LCQ and the Global Rating of Change (GRC) upon follow-up visits after 2 or 4 weeks. Concurrent validation, internal consistency, repeatability, and responsiveness were determined. Results: For the concurrent validation, the correlation coefficients (n=202 patients) between the LCG and SF-36 varied between 0.42 and 0.58. The internal consistency of the LCQ (n=207) was high for each of the domains with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.82-0.94. The repeatability of the LCQ in patients with no change in cough (n=23) was high, with intra-class correlation coefficients of 0.66-0.81. Patients who reported an improvement in cough (n=30) on follow-up visits demonstrated significant improvement in each of the domains of the LCQ. Conclusions: The Korean version of the LCQ is a valid and reliable questionnaire for measurement of the severity of cough in patients with chronic cough.
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