A German version of the Intermittent Claudication Questionnaire (ICQ): cultural adaptation and validation

• Published in: VASA Vol. 41; no. 5; p. 333
• Main Authors: Kirchberger, Inge, Finger, Thomas, Müller-Bühl, Uwe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland 01.09.2012
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living - classification; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Exercise Test; Feasibility Studies; Female; Germany; Humans; Intermittent Claudication - diagnosis; Language; Male; Middle Aged; Peripheral Arterial Disease - diagnosis; Quality of Life; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires; Translating; Germany

The Intermittent Claudication Questionnaire (ICQ) is a short questionnaire for the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with intermittent claudication (IC). The objective of this study was to translate the ICQ into German and to investigate the psychometric properties of...