Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The stroke-specific quality of life scale is a well-known, standardized, and
most comprehensive and commonly used disease-specific measure to assess the quality of life
in stroke. However, all stroke-specific patient recorded outcome measures are not accessible
in all languages. The availability of translated, adapted, valid and reliable Stroke specific
quality of life scale in the Amharic language is fundamental to detect the effectiveness of
interventions and related functional changes in stroke in clinical practices and research.
Objective: To design cross-cultural translation, adaptation and validate Amharic version of
Stroke specific quality of life scale among stroke survivors in Amhara regional state referral
hospitals, Ethiopia 2021.
Methods: A multicentre based cross-sectional study was conducted in Amhara regional state
referral hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia from February to May 2021. The Stroke specific quality
of life scale was translated into Amharic and then back-translated into English. An expert
committee assembled to review all the translations and produced the pre-final Amharic
version of the scale, followed by field testing on a sample of 15 stroke survivors. We
evaluated the psychometric properties of the Amharic final version of the stroke-specific
quality of life scale among 245 stroke survivors recruited from four referral hospitals in
Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Cronbach’s alpha and Intra-class correlation coefficient were used
to calculate the reliability and spearman’s correlation for the convergent construct validity of
the Amharic version of the stroke-specific quality of the scale.
Results:-: The Amharic version of the stroke-specific quality of life scale has shown excellent
internal consistency with
