Validity and reliability of global ratings of satisfaction with epilepsy surgery.

Objective: We aimed to assess the reliability and validity of single-item global ratings (GR) of satisfaction with epilepsy surgery.

Methods: We recruited 240 patients from four centers in Canada and Sweden who underwent epilepsy surgery ≥1 year earlier. Participants completed a validated questionnaire on satisfaction with epilepsy surgery (the ESSQ-19), plus a single-item GR of satisfaction with epilepsy surgery twice, 4-6 weeks apart.

Development and validation of the Epilepsy Surgery Satisfaction Questionnaire (ESSQ-19).

Objective: No validated tools exist to assess satisfaction with epilepsy surgery. We aimed to develop and validate a new measure of patient satisfaction with epilepsy surgery, the 19-item Epilepsy Surgery Satisfaction Questionnaire (ESSQ-19).

Methods: An initial 31-item measure was developed based on literature review, patient focus groups, thematic analysis, and Delphi panels.

Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life among People Living with HIV in Xinjiang, West China.

In total, 679 HIV-positive patients from 4 clinics in Urumqi city were given structured questionnaires by the doctors or nurses treating them. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was assessed using the Chinese Patient-Reported Outcome Quality of Life-HIV questionnaire versions in Mandarin and Uyghur. This tool has been used in other parts of China and several countries.

Interstitial cystitis is bladder pain syndrome with Hunner's lesion.

The contents and understanding of the term, interstitial cystitis, have undergone major changes during the past 100 years, moving from a chronic, true inflammatory bladder disorder to an extensive syndrome with lower urinary tract pain. Comments on this development are presented. From examples in the literature, some important features of classic interstitial cystitis are outlined.

Genetic influences are important for most but not all lower urinary tract symptoms: a population-based survey in a cohort of adult Swedish twins.

Background: The relative importance of genetic and environmental factors for the occurrence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) is poorly understood.

Objective: To (1) estimate the prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI), overactive bladder (OAB), and other LUTS and (2) to assess the heritability of these symptoms.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Cross-sectional survey of LUTS in a national population-based cohort of Swedish twins 20-46 yr of age (n=42 582) from the Swedish Twin Registry.

The immediate effect of repeated loading on the compressive strength of young porcine lumbar spine.

The human spine is exposed to repeated loading during daily activities and more extremely during sports. Despite this, there remains a lack of knowledge regarding the immediate effects on the spine due to this mode of loading. Age-specific spinal injury patterns has been demonstrated and this implies differences in reaction to load mode and load history The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of cyclic pre-loading on the biomechanical properties and fracture patterns of the adolescent spine in an experimental model.

Lower urinary tract symptoms: lack of change in prevalence and help-seeking behaviour in two population-based surveys of women in 1991 and 2007.

Objectives: To test the hypothesis that the overt prevalence and help-seeking pattern for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) might have changed over time, by comparing the prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI), overactive bladder (OAB) and other LUTS (principally storage symptoms) and help-seeking pattern in two equivalent groups of women 16 years apart.

Subjects And Methods: We compared two cross-sectional studies; population-based random samples of women aged ≥20 years in the central district of Gothenburg in 1991 (2911) and 2007 (3158) were asked to complete similar self-administered postal questionnaires regarding UI and other LUTS.

Results: The mean (sd, range) age of the two groups was 48.

A longitudinal population-based survey of urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, and other lower urinary tract symptoms in women.

Background: Female urinary incontinence (UI), overactive bladder (OAB), and other lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are highly prevalent conditions with a profound influence on well-being and quality of life. There are a few studies describing progression as well as remission, in the short term, of UI in the general population as well as in selected groups; at present, there are very few population-based studies describing the natural course of other LUTS in the same women, and there are no long-term longitudinal studies.

Objective: To describe the prevalence of UI, OAB, and other LUTS in the same women studied prospectively over time and, thus, to assess possible progression or regression.