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<Articles JournalTitle="Journal of Modern Rehabilitation">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Journal of Modern Rehabilitation</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2538-385X</Issn>
      <Volume>17</Volume>
      <Issue>2</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2023</Year>
        <Month>04</Month>
        <Day>01</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Validity and Reliability of the Persian Version of the Comprehensive Constipation Questionnaire: A Cross-Sectional Study</title>
    <FirstPage>181</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>187</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Tuba</FirstName>
        <LastName>Mahmoudzadeh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Fariba</FirstName>
        <LastName>Ghaderi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mohammad</FirstName>
        <LastName>Asghari Jafarabadi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Bita</FirstName>
        <LastName>Sepehri</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Hakimeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Adigozali</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>09</Month>
        <Day>21</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>29</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Introduction: Chronic constipation is one of the most common complaints of patients in developed countries, which affects 2 to 28% of the world&#x2019;s population and alters patients&#x2019; quality of life extensively. This study aimed to determine the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the comprehensive constipation questionnaire.
Materials and Methods: The comprehensive constipation questionnaire was translated into Persian, and its back-translation was confirmed after evaluating the content validity ratio index (CVR) based on Lawshe table (CVR&#x2265;0.62). The content validity of the questionnaire was assessed by the content validity index, followed by examining its reliability by Cronbach alpha and test-re-test reliability using the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC). A total of 100 patients with chronic constipation completed the questionnaire.
Results: Content validity was confirmed in the range of 0.84 to 1.00, and the Cronbach alpha values in the range of 0.90-1.00 were acceptable. In this questionnaire, was ICC in the range of 0.76-0.99 which indicates a level of good to excellent reliability of the questionnaire. Also, the results of the factor analysis were confirmed at a moderate level Kaiser Meyer Olkin test (KMO&gt;0.6) and Bartlett test (P&lt;0.05) by extracting a 1-factor solution.
Conclusion: The Persian version of the comprehensive constipation questionnaire had acceptable validity and reliability and seems to be an effective tool to evaluate patients with constipation.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://jmr.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jmr/article/view/557</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
