{"doi":"10.1007/s00192-024-05866-5","title":"Reliability and Validation of the PFIQ-7 and PFDI-20 in the Luganda Language","abstract":"INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) impact women worldwide and are assessed using instruments such as the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI-20) and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ-7). There are no known valid PFD instruments in Uganda. This study's purpose was to translate and test the reliability and validity of the PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7 in Luganda. It was predicted that these instruments would be reliable and valid to assess the presence and impact of PFD in parous Luganda-speaking women. METHODS: The translated PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7 were administered to parous Luganda-speaking women and readministered 4-8 months after. The Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification (POP-Q) examination determined the presence of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and a cough-stress test (CST) measured urinary leakage. Analysis was completed using Cronbach's α co-efficient for internal consistency and Spearman's correlation coefficients and Wilcoxon rank sum tests for construct validity. RESULTS: Of the 159 participants, 93 (58.3%) had stage II POP or higher. The PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7 demonstrated minimal bother and impact on activities of daily living respectively. The Urinary Distress Inventory 6 (UDI-6) scores on the PFDI-20 showed a strong positive association with the presence of urinary incontinence. When PFD was defined by responses to symptom assessment, the translated PFDI-20 and PFIQ-7 could differentiate between individuals with and without PFD. CONCLUSIONS: The UDI-6 section of the PFDI-20 was found to be valid in Luganda. The PFIQ-7 and the entirety of the PFDI-20 were not found to be reliable or valid, likely because of the low prevalence of PFDs in the study population.","journal":"International Urogynecology Journal","year":2024,"id":468549,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9503,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1302083,"name":"Michael Derrick Ngobi","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":459398,"name":"Flavia Matovu Kiweewa","orcid":"0000-0002-0046-4353","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1302084,"name":"Julia Diane Fleecs","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1075638,"name":"Ramya Vemulapalli","orcid":"0009-0001-5967-0135","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1012963,"name":"Haley Alaine Steffen","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":832955,"name":"Linder Wendt","orcid":"0000-0003-1832-0486","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":494071,"name":"J. Brooks Jackson","orcid":"0000-0001-9458-135X","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":703597,"name":"Kimberly A. Kenne","orcid":"0000-0002-2324-8266","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1302082,"name":"JaNiese E. Jensen","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":10,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:05:23.500722Z","pmid":"38995423","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}