Adult Rhinoconjunctivitis

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+ Index  
+ Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ)
+ Standardised Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ(S))
+ Mini Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (MiniRQLQ)
+ Nocturnal Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire
+ Rhinitis Quality of Life Questionnaire
+Contact: Professor Elizabeth Juniper

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Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ)

Overview

The Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire was developed to measure the problems that adults with rhinoconjunctivitis, both atopic and non-atopic, experience as a result of their nose and eye symptoms. It has 28 questions in 7 domains (activity limitations, sleep problems, non-nose/eye symptoms, practical problems, nose symptoms, eye symptoms and emotional function) and is in both self-administered and interviewer-administered formats. Patients are asked to recall their experiences during the previous week and to give their responses on a 7-point scale. The questionnaire has excellent evaluative and discriminative properties and has been used extensively throughout the world in a large number of clinical trials.

N.B.: The original instrument was developed in 1989 and published in the interviewer-administered format in 1991. When we brought out the self-administered format in 1996, the order of the domains was altered to make the questionnaire simple for self-administration.

References

  1. Juniper EF, Guyatt GH. Development and testing of a new measure of health status for clinical trials in rhinoconjunctivitis. Clin Exper Allergy 1991; 21: 77-83.
  2. Juniper EF, Guyatt GH, Griffith LE, Ferrie PJ. Interpretation of rhinoconjunctivitis quality of life questionnaire data. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1996; 98: 843-845.
  3. Juniper EF, Thompson AK, Roberts JN.  Can the standard gamble and rating scale be used to measure quality of life in rhinconjunctivits? Comparison with the RQLQ and SF-36.  Allergy 2002; 57: 201-206.

Original Language

English for North America

Translations

  • Afrikaan
  • Bulgarian 
  • Chinese (Singapore)
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Czech 
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English for U.K.
  • Estonian 
  • Finnish
  • Flemish
  • French
  • French for Belgium
  • French for Québec
  • German
  • Hindi for India 
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian 
  • Macedonian
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian 
  • Spanish
  • Spanish for North America
  • Swedish

Formats

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Standardised Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ(S))

Overview

In the original Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire, the 3 activities in the activity limitation domain are all "patient-specific". This has enabled the questionnaire to focus on the activity impairments important to each individual patient and thus allowed the questionnaire to retain good content validity in a wide range of situations. For instance, patients with hayfever (summer seasonal allergic rhinitis) often experience problems with outdoor activities, those with perennial allergic rhinitis (e.g., sensitivity to such things as house dust and animal dander) usually have problems with indoor activities and those with non-allergic rhinitis are bothered by activities associated with their non-allergic triggers (e.g., cold air).

Although it is optimal to use patient-specific activities, we have developed a version of the RQLQ in which the 3 activities are standardised for all patients with rhinoconjunctivitis. The RQLQ(S) has been fully validated and shows strong measurement properties.

Reference

  1. Juniper EF, Thompson AK, Ferrie PJ, Roberts J. Development and validation of the Standardized Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (RQLQ(S)). AAAAI, Orlando, 1999.

Format

Translations

  • AustrianGerman
  • Bulgarian
  • Czech
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Dutch for Belgium
  • English for U.K.
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • French for Belgium 
  • French for France
  • French for Québec 

 
  • German
  • Hungarian 
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Slovakian  
  • Spanish
  • Swedish        

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Mini Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (MiniRQLQ)

Overview

In response to the need for a shorter version of the original RQLQ, we have developed the MiniRQLQ which has 14 items in 5 domains (activity limitations, practical problems, nose symptoms, eye symptoms, non-nose/eye symptoms). The MiniRQLQ retains the 7-point response options and is self-administered. The MiniRQLQ has been fully validated.

Reference

  1. Juniper EF, Thompson AK, Ferrie PJ, Roberts J. Development and validation of the Mini Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (MiniRQLQ). AAAAI, Orlando, 1999.

Format

Translations

  • Austrian German
  • Bulgarian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Dutch for Belgium 
  • English for U.K.
  • Estonian
  • Finnish 
  • French for France
  • French for Belgium 

 
  • German 
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Slovak
  • Spanish
  • Swedish         

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Nocturnal Rhinconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (Nocturnal RQLQ)

Overview

Many patients with rhinoconjunctivitis experience symptoms at night and these interfere with getting a good night's sleep.  This questionnaire has been developed and validated to assess the specific problems that these patients experience.  The Nocturnal RQLQ has 16 items in 4 domains: problems with sleep (4 items), symptoms during sleep time (5 items), symptoms on waking in the morning (4 items) and practical problems (3 items).

Reference

  1. Juniper EF, Rohrbaugh T, Meltzer EO.  A questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life in adults with nocturnal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis.  J Allergy Clin Immunol 2003; 111: 484-90

Original Language

English for North America

Format

Self administered.

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Rhinitis Quality of Life Questionnaire

Overview

The Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire asks questions about problems associated with both rhinitis and conjunctivitis. For patients with rhinitis alone (usually of non-allergic origin), we developed and validated the Rhinitis Quality of Life Questionnaire. It is almost exactly the same as the RQLQ except that all questions concerning eye symptoms have been omitted and others reworded to apply to nasal problems alone.

References

  1. Juniper EF, Guyatt GH, Andersson B, Ferrie PJ. Comparison of powder and aerosolized budesonide in perennial rhinitis: validation of rhinitis quality of life questionnaire. Annals Allergy 1993; 70: 225-230.

Original Language

English for North America

Translation

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Adult RQLQ Package

Package Content

Package Availability

Use of the Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire is free of charge to all clinicians, academics and non-commercial organisations.

There is a user fee for commercial organisations who have not supported our research program.

Package Ordering

Contact Professor Elizabeth Juniper to order your package. Please be sure to include your full mailing address and specify the language you require.

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Contact Details

Professor Elizabeth Juniper
20 Marcuse Fields
Bosham, West Sussex
P018 8NA, UK
Telephone +44 (0) 1243 572124
Fax +44 (0) 1243 573680

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