Brenda O’Neill|Denise Cosgrove|J. MacMahon|Evie McCrum-Gardner|Judy Bradley
Assessing Education in Pulmonary Rehabilitation: The Understanding COPD (UCOPD) Questionnaire
University of Ulster|University of Ulster|Belfast Health and Social Care Trust|University of Ulster
currently questionnaire available comprehensively assesses patients understanding selfefficacy satisfaction education component pulmonary rehabilitation aim study develop understanding copd ucopd questionnaire key stages development ucopd questionnaire generation questions assessment face content validity usercentredness acceptability feasibility ii assessment plain english readability iii assessment structural validity iv assessment testretest reliability internal consistency v assessment responsiveness convergent validity floor ceiling effects ucopd questionnaire assesses understanding selfefficacy use key selfmanagement skills section satisfaction section b good validity practical properties readability acceptable good testretest reliability section icc range 087 096 section b wilcoxon p 005 internal consistency cronbachs alpha range 078 095 responsive pulmonary rehabilitation mean change copd 1826 1212 2440 managing symptoms 2094 1386 2801 accessing help support 2406 1453 3360 total 2059 1443 2675 p 0001 moderate correlation bristol copd knowledge questionnaire bckq prepulmonary rehabilitation r 041 p 002 postpulmonary rehabilitation r 035 p 0047 conclusion ucopd questionnaire offers opportunity assess benefit education component pulmonary rehabilitation terms effect understanding selfefficacy satisfaction research needed across different pulmonary rehabilitation settings demonstrate robustness ucopd questionnaire establish minimum clinically important difference