Italian cross-cultural adaptation of the patient-reported outcome measure of ataxia.

Anna CastaldoMariangela FarinottiMario FicheraLorenzo NanettiFilippo FortunaCaterina Mariotti Alessandra Solari

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2023)

The translation and cultural adaptation of the PROM-Ataxia questionnaire in the Italian patient population represent the pre-requisite for the subsequent psychometric validation of the scale. This instrument may be valuable for cross-country comparability that would allow the merging of the data in collaborative multinational research studies.

Keyphrases

patient reported outcomes
early onset
case report
electronic health record
quality improvement
big data
cross sectional
case control
psychometric properties
machine learning