Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Development and validation of a French patient-based health-related quality of life instrument in kidney transplant: the ReTransQoL | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Development and validation of a French patient-based health-related quality of life instrument in kidney transplant the ReTransQoL Stephanie Gentile 1 Elisabeth Jouve1 Bertrand Dussol2 Valerie Moal2 Yvon Berland2 and Roland Sambuc1 Address Department of Public Health EA 3279 University of Aix-Marseille II France and 2Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Hospital Conception Marseille France Email Stephanie Gentile - Elisabeth Jouve - Bertrand Dussol - Valerie Moal - Yvon Berland - Roland Sambuc - Corresponding author Published 13 October 2008 Received 13 March 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 78 doi 1477-7525-6-78 Accepted 13 October 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 78 2008 Gentile et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background In the absence of a French health-related quality of life QOL instrument for renal transplant recipients RTR we developed a self-administered questionnaire the ReTransQol RtQ . Methods This questionnaire was developed using classical methodology in the following three phases over a two-year period Item Generation phase identifying all possible items having adverse impact on the QOL of RTR Item Reduction phase selecting the most pertinent items related to QOL and Validation phase analyzing the psychometric properties. All RTR involved in these phases were over 18 and were randomly selected from a transplant registry. Results Item generation was conducted through 24 interviews of RTR. The first version .
