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ArticleVeterinary dermatology2026

Development of a Four-Language Questionnaire to Investigate Environmental Risk Factors for the Development of Canine Atopic Dermatitis and to Monitor Disease Course and Progression.

Patricia Clara-Maria Rhodius, Nina Fischer, Ana Rostaher, Franco Martini, Edwin Chapman, Sabrina Audergon, Stefan Hobi, Georg Lehner, Sylvie Wilhelm, Noëmi van Oordt and 2 more

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Patricia Clara-Maria RhodiusDermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8390-0196
Nina FischerDermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0142-226X
Ana RostaherDermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Franco MartiniDermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9304-2706
Edwin ChapmanDermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sabrina AudergonDermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Stefan HobiDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4517-7729
Georg LehnerKleintierpraxis Lehner - Fachpraxis für Dermatologie, Buch, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3669-4323
Sylvie WilhelmVet Dermatology GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland.
Noëmi van OordtDepartment of Education, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2082-1563
Claude FavrotDermatology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0821-0956
Malwina KowalskaOphthalmology Department, Clinic for Small Animal Internal Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-7581

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SwissUniversities Grant for Open Data Research
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Abstract

backgroundThe chronic and multifactorial character of canine atopic dermatitis (cAD) often leads to poor disease control and treatment dissatisfaction. Environmental factors are likely to contribute to the disease development and may play a more important role than assumed previously. This opens new research directions that require an appropriate tool to obtain useful data from large representative study populations. HYPOTHESIS/

objectivesA tool such as a questionnaire is suitable for obtaining high-quality data to investigate the pathogenesis of cAD and monitor the disease. MATERIALS AND

methodsTo assure the tool's validity and reliability, the development process of this four-language questionnaire (original language German) included two pilot tests (with owners' interviews and questionnaire evaluation sheets), test-retest assessment, content validity evaluation and a structured translation and back-translation into three languages (English, Italian and French).

resultsThe development process took place between June 2024 and December 2024. The preliminary questionnaire comprised 107 questions. The pilot tests (round 1 = four participants, round 2 = two participants) resulted in a revision of 31 questions and the deletion of three. The test-retest assessment revealed an Intraclass Correlation Coefficient of 0.80. The panel of (six) experts evaluated the questionnaire with a content validity index of 0.99. The translation and back-translation process revealed that only minor adjustments were sufficient to guarantee the validity and reliability across languages. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The comprehensive development process ensures high validity and reliability of the questionnaire, indicating that such a process can not only positively impact the quality of the developed tool, but also create a reliable basis for the generation of accurate and less biased data.

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Dermatitis, AtopicDog DiseasesAnimalsDisease ProgressionDogsFemaleLanguageMalePilot ProjectsReproducibility of ResultsRisk FactorsSurveys and Questionnairescanine atopic dermatitisdogsenvironmental factorsquestionnairereliabilityvalidity

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