Measurement Properties and Factor Analysis of the Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale Short Form (DFSSF) in Brazil
Abstract
Among the instruments available in foreign literature to assess the Quality of Life (QoL) of people with Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU), the Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale (DFS) stands out, due to its applicability, acceptability, and satisfactory evidence of measurement properties in different countries. Thus, this short commentary was aimed at presenting to the community the performance of the Diabetic Foot ulcer Scale-Short Form (DFS-SF) instrument in the Brazilian population. A methodological study was carried out, with 290 people with DFU in outpatient follow-up, in which the measurement properties were demonstrated: evaluation of reliability, acceptability, practicability, ceiling and floor effects, responsiveness and structural construct validity. The results show that it is a tool with satisfactory measurement properties to assess the QoL of people with DFU.
Citation: de Oliveira Kaizer UA, São-João TM (2021) Measurement Properties and Factor Analysis of the Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale Short Form (DFSSF) in Brazil. J Clin Diabetes 5: 116.
Copyright: © 2021 de Oliveira Kaizer UA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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