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<Articles JournalTitle="Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>1735-1502</Issn>
      <Volume>20</Volume>
      <Issue>4</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>08</Month>
        <Day>07</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Evaluation of the Reliability and Validity of the Persian Version  of Urticaria Control Test (UCT)</title>
    <FirstPage>423</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>431</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Maryam</FirstName>
        <LastName>Khoshkhui</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Allergy Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Karsten</FirstName>
        <LastName>Weller</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Dermatological Allergology, Allergie-Centrum-Charit&#xE9;, Charit&#xE9; &#x2013; Universit&#xE4;tsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Javad</FirstName>
        <LastName>Fadaee</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Marcus</FirstName>
        <LastName>Maurer</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Dermatological Allergology, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Allergie-Centrum-Charit&#xE9;, Charit&#xE9; &#x2013; Universit&#xE4;tsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Farahzad</FirstName>
        <LastName>Jabbari Azad</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Allergy Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Maryam</FirstName>
        <LastName>Emadzadeh</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Clinical Research Development Unit, Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>10</Month>
        <Day>11</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>05</Month>
        <Day>16</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">The urticaria control test (UCT) is a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for chronic urticaria (CU) patients. As a Persian version of the UCT was not available, the present research aimed to develop such a version, to test its reliability and validity as well as to evaluate urticaria control among Persian-speaking patients.
This research was conducted at the Urticaria Centre of Reference and Excellence (UCARE) of Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad, Iran. In a first step, a linguistically validated Persian version of the UCT was developed through a structured forward and backward translation process and subsequent cognitive debriefing interviews. In a second step, the Persian version of the UCT was completed by 100 well-characterized CU patients together with two anchor instruments, the Chronic Urticaria Quality of life Questionnaire (CU-Q2oL) and the urticaria activity score (UAS), to obtain information on its internal consistency reliability and convergent validity.
The Persian version of the UCT was found to have acceptable internal consistency reliability with a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.68. In addition, the results obtained with the Persian UCT correlated with the CU-Q2oL total score (-0.48, p&lt;0.001) and the UAS (-0.404, p&#x2C2;0.001), suggesting convergent validity. Virtually all patients had poorly controlled CU (UCT&lt;12).
A Persian version of the UCT is now available and may help to improve the assessment and monitoring of disease control in Persian-speaking CU patients and to optimize treatment decisions.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://ijaai.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijaai/article/view/2998</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://ijaai.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijaai/article/download/2998/1725</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
