ArticleJournal of patient-reported outcomes2026
Translation and cultural adaptation of the EQ-5D-Y-5L into Modern Standard Arabic for use in Egypt.
Article in Journal of patient-reported outcomes, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Psychometric properties of EQ-5D-Y-3L versus EQ-5D-Y-5L Arabic versions in healthy and diseased children.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundThe use of the EQ-5D-Y-5L to evaluate children and adolescents’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an essential contribution to economic evaluation methods. Accurate translation and cultural adaptation of questionnaires are crucial for their effective use, enabling comparison of data across different languages. Therefore, this study aimed to translate and culturally adapt the EQ-5D-Y-5L into Standard Arabic for use in Egypt. METHODOLOGY: The translation process was done according to the methodology and translation guidelines approved by the EuroQol Group Version Management Committee. Two forward translations into Arabic, then two back translations to English were performed, independently. The third step was conducting cognitive interviews with the children, which included a card-ranking exercise, self-completion of the translated Arabic questionnaire, and detailed discussion with the children about the questionnaire sentences. The last step was proofreading of the final Arabic version of the questionnaire.
resultsThe first Arabic versions of the paper and digital questionnaires were created after the forward translation. Following the back translation, only one modification was made in the digital source of the Arabic version. Cognitive interviews were conducted with 11 children with a mean age of 10.6 years. Some changes were suggested based on the initial 8 interviews in the Pain or Discomfort dimension and in the visual analogue scale (VAS) instructions. Three additional interviews were carried out to discuss these changes, and all were accepted. The final Arabic version was then developed after proofreading.
conclusionsThe Standard Arabic version of the EQ-5D-Y-5L produced in this study is an acceptable version that can be used in Egypt and other Arabic-speaking countries.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.