Incidence and remission of lower urinary tract symptoms

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7268.1082

BMJ 2000;321:1082 ( 28 October )

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Incidence and remission of lower urinary tract symptoms

Authors should have used standardised questionnaire

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Authors should have used standardised questionnaire

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EDITOR $---$ Møller et al did not describe in detail the questionnaire that they used in their longitudinal study of lower urinarytract symptoms in women,¹ but it seems to have been based ontwo different instruments. ² ³ The Bristol female lower urinarytract symptoms questionnaire uses a five point scale for reportingsymptoms.³ Respondents can reply "never," "occasionally," "sometimes,""most of the time," or "all of the time" when asked whether theyhave a particular symptom; when asked about frequency they canreply "never," "once or less a week," "2-3 times a week," "oncea day," or "several times aday."

This raises the issue of reproducibility when the questionnaire is completed on more than one occasion. Reproducibility ofour instrument was good when a test-retest analysis was performedwith a two week interval, there being no apparent change in theunderlying condition during that time; 78% of symptom questions. . . [Full text of this article]

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