Rhinasthma

Name of Questionnaire

Rhinasthma

Description

A disease-specific quality of life instrument which evaluates rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma together

Developer

I Baiardini, M Pasquali, A Giardini, C Specchia, G Passalacqua, S Venturi, F Braido, S Bonini G Majani, GW Canonica

Address

Allergy & Respiratory Diseases
Department of Internal Medicine
Genoa University
Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10
16132 Genoa
Italy

E-mail

canonica@unige.it

Cost & availability

Contact Prof. Canonica

Administration

Self-administered

Time to complete

5 minutes

Number of items

30

Domains & categories

3

Name of categories/domains

Lower Airways - LA; Upper Airways - UA; Respiratory Allergy Impact - RAI
It is also possible to calculate a synthetic indices, Global Impact-GI

Scaling of items

Patients indicate how bothered they are by symptoms on a 5-point scale, from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very much)

Scoring

For each domain the scores are transformed linearly to 0-100 scales, with 0 and 100 assigned to the lowest and highest possible scores, respectively

Reliability

1. Test-retest/reproducibility: All items showed evidence of test-retest reliability. Pearson's r ranged between 0.70 and 0.92 for each of the items
2. Internal consistency: Cronbach's a coefficient indicated internal consistency of 0.93, 0.87, and 0.76 for the three factors

Validity

Construct validity was evidenced in significant differentiation between the two groups of patients within all subscales of the SF-36 (1)

Evidence of criterion validity was observed between patients with rhinoconjunctivitis and patients with rhinoconjunctivitis and asthma. In all cases, average scores between the two groups were significantly different from each other (1)

Responsiveness

Able to detect within-subject changes (1)

Research use

Not reported

Clinical use

Not reported

Language

Original: Italian

Translations: English

References

1. Bairdini I, Pasquali M, Giardini A, Specchia C, Passalaqua G, Venturi S, Braido F, Bonini S, Majani G, Canonica GW. Rhinasthma: a new specific QoL questionnaire for patients with rhinitis and asthma. Allergy. 2003;58:289-194.
   

Date of information

Februaru 2005