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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of the revised illness perception questionnaire for patients with hypertension.

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2022


Front Public Health


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36249248?dopt=Abstract


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Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of the revised illness perception questionnaire for patients with hypertension.

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Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of the revised illness perception questionnaire for patients with hypertension.
Al-Ghamdi S, Al Muaddi A M, Alqahtani N A, Alhasoon T Y, Basalem A A, Altamimi A A
Front Public Health. 2022; 10:874722.
PMID: 36249248.

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Saudi Arabia affecting 31.4% of the population. The Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) is a validated and reliable tool for assessing the perception of hypertension among patients. This cross-sectional study aimed to translate the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) into Arabic and validate it among Arabic patients with hypertension from the outpatient departments of the Prince Sattam University Hospital and King Khalid Hospital (KKH) in Al-Kharj City in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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