Affiliations 

  • 1 School of Pharmacy, Monash University, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia. [email protected]
  • 2 School of Pharmacy, Monash University, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
BMC Nephrol, 2017 Oct 02;18(1):302.
PMID: 28969584 DOI: 10.1186/s12882-017-0717-0

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become a major public health issue worldwide in the past few years. Pruritus is a common, well-recognized complication often seen in patients with chronic renal failure. For assessment of pruritus, different tools are used but these tools are unable to identify the changes and variations in the severity of pruritus. The aim of our study was to validate the Urdu-version of the Urdu-version of the 5D itch scale among patients suffering from chronic kidney disease in Pakistan.

METHOD: The 5D itch scale was translated from English into Urdu following translation guidelines for translation. Face and content validity was determined by a panel of experts and piloted. For retest, the Urdu version of the 5D itch scale was administered at baseline and two weeks.

RESULTS: A total of 50 participants with end stage renal disease were recruited, and of these, 64% were males. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the 5D-IS had 2-factor loadings: "Pattern and activity" and "Distribution" with Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin (KMO) = 0.802, Bartlett's test of sphericity was significant (df = 28, p 

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