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Table 5 Characteristics of the included study populations

From: Patient-reported outcome measures for acute rhinosinusitis in adults and children: a systematic review of the quality of existing instruments

PROM

Reference

Sample size

Age mean (SD)

or median in years

Setting

Country (Language)

Measurement properties

Quality of life

SNOT-16

Garbutt et al. (2011)

N = 166

32 (range 18–69)

Primary care practices

USA (English)

Internal consistency, test-retest reliability, construct validity, responsiveness

 

Quadri et al. (2013)

N = 347

Treatment arm: 40.1 (13.8); Placebo arm: 40.3 (13.0)

Clinical sites

USA (English)

Internal consistency, construct validity, responsiveness

MARS

Hornáčková et al. (2014)

N = 100

Patient group: 40.4 (range 18–71); Control group: 22.8

Ears, nose, throat offices and outpatient department of a university hospital

Czech Republic (Czech)

PROM development, internal consistency, construct validity, responsiveness

RhinoQoL

Petrat (2020)

N = 81

≥ 18 years

Clinical site

Germany (German)

Internal consistency, construct validity, responsiveness

Symptoms

PRSS

Shaikh et al. (2019)

Development:

N = 258;

Validation: N = 185

Development: 6.4 (2.9), Validation: 5.6 (2.7)

Ambulatory pediatric clinics

USA (English)

PROM development, structural validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, responsiveness

S5

Garbutt et al. (1999)

Development:

N = 1611;

Validation: N = 93

46% <6 years; 26% 6–12 years; 27% >12 years

Community pediatric ambulatory care practice

USA (English)

PROM development, test-retest reliability, responsiveness

  1. PROM patient-reported oucome measure, MARS Measurement of Acute Rhinosinusitis, PRSS Pediatric Rhinosinusitis Symptom Score, RhinoQoL Rhinosinusitis Quality-of-Life Questionnaire, SNOT-16 Sinonasal Outcome Test-16, S5 Sinusitis Symptom Questionnaire