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Validation of the Polish translation of the Quality of Recovery-15 questionnaire

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Introduction The evaluation of postoperative convalescence requires a patient-reported quality of recovery. One of the tools that facilitate such evaluation is the Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15) questionnaire. Even though it has been validated in several languages, a Polish version of the questionnaire has not been available until now. Material and methods The study was conducted in 5 Polish hospitals from 22 January 2023 to 7 May 2023. Patients aged over 18 years undergoing a surgical procedure with planned general anaesthesia were considered eligible for the study. The participants completed the translated QoR-15 questionnaire twice: before surgery and on day 1 after surgery. 20% of patients were asked to complete the questionnaire twice after surgery in order to establish the test-retest reliability. Visual Analogue Scale results were obtained at each time point. Comprehensive data regarding patients’ clinical characteristics, surgical procedure and postoperative complications were obtained from medical records. Results 342 patients (52.6% females) successfully completed both preoperative and postoperative questionnaires. The Cronbach’s a values for preoperative and postoperative questionnaires were 0.85 and 0.86, respectively. Test-retest reliability indicated by the intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.91 (95% CI: 0.85 to 0.94, P < 0.01). Cohen’s effect size was 0.78 (95% CI: 0.62 to 0.93) with a standardized response mean of –0.65 (95% CI: –0.75 to –0.54). Conclusions The Polish version of the QoR-15 questionnaire is a reliable and effective tool for assessing the quality of recovery reported by patients after surgery and general anaesthesia.

Source: Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy

DOI: 10.5114/ait/200229