Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Quality of life in South East Asian patients who consult for dyspepsia: Validation of the short form Nepean Dyspepsia Index | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Quality of life in South East Asian patients who consult for dyspepsia Validation of the short form Nepean Dyspepsia Index Sanjiv Mahadeva 1 Hwee-Lin Wee2 3 Khean-Lee Goh1 and Julian Thumboo2 4 Address division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 2Department of Rheumatology and Immunology Singapore General Hospital Singapore 3Department of Pharmacy National University of Singapore Singapore and 4Department of Medicine Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore Singapore Email Sanjiv Mahadeva - sanjiv@ Hwee-Lin Wee - phawhl@ Khean-Lee Goh - klgoh56@ Julian Thumboo - julian_thumboo@ Corresponding author Published 23 May 2009 Received 25 January 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 45 doi 86 1477-7525-7-45 Accepted 23 May 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 45 2009 Mahadeva 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 Treatment objectives for dyspepsia include improvements in both symptoms and health-related quality of life HRQoL . There is a lack of disease-specific instruments measuring HRQoL in South East Asian dyspeptics. Objectives To validate English and locally translated version of the Short-Form Nepean Dyspepsia Index SF-NDI in Malaysian patients who consult for dyspepsia. Methods The English version of the SF-NDI was culturally adapted locally and a Malay translation was developed using standard procedures. English and Malay versions of the SF-NDI were assessed against the SF-36 and the Leeds Dyspepsia Questionnaire LDQ examining internal .
