Adult UrologyEDITS: development of questionnaires for evaluating satisfaction with treatments for erectile dysfunction 1☆,
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Item pool construction
Pools of items for the patient and partner versions of a treatment satisfaction questionnaire were constructed based on reviews of four sources of information: (a) diagnostic criteria for erectile dysfunction, (b) published reports in the area of treatment satisfaction for erectile dysfunction,19 (c) existing treatment satisfaction inventories, and (d) clinical experience treating patients with erectile dysfunction and their partners.
Items were constructed to be unambiguous and answerable on
Content validity panel
Responses of the 10 members of the expert validity panel for each of the questions were dichotomized. Items were considered to have been judged as belonging in the domain if the respondent indicated that it moderately, considerably, or absolutely belonged in the domain; items judged as moderately, considerably, or absolutely important were considered important to the domain. The percentage of the panel that rated each item as belonging in the domain and as important in the domain is shown in
Comment
The Patient EDITS and the Partner EDITS are brief, psychometrically sound questionnaires suitable for use in the evaluation of satisfaction with medical treatment modalities for erectile dysfunction. The two inventories have six features that merit their use.
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The inventories are focused specifically on satisfaction with treatment for erectile dysfunction. They are not measures of treatment satisfaction in general and thus do not ask about things like the attractiveness of the facility or the
Acknowledgements
To Sue Ellen Jackson, M.A., Franca Burton, R.N., Mary Alice Monroe, R.N., Irene Trueheart, R.N., and Helen Anderson for their assistance in completing the study.
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This research was supported by Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York.
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Requests for copies of the EDITS should be directed to S.E. Althof.
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S.E. Althof, E.W. Corty, S.B. Levine, A.L. Burnett, K. McVary, and A.D. Seftel are paid consultants to and V. Stecher is an employee of Pfizer, Inc.