Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validation in Moroccan Arabic Dialect "Darija" of the QoR-15 Postoperative Recovery Quality Score"

Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validation in Moroccan Arabic Dialect "Darija" of the QoR-15 Postoperative Recovery Quality Score"

The QoR-15 Is a post operative recovery score developed in 2013 from the QoR-40 with an advantage of simplification. The investigators Aim to translate and to validate a such useful score in Arabic adapted for Morocco by a full psychometric evaluation of the Arabic version, by testing its validity, reliability, responsiveness, and clinical acceptability and feasibility, with patients undergoing abdominal, thoracic, gynecological surgery, or digestive endoscopy in the National Institute of Oncology of Rabat, affiliated to Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age ≥ 18 years
• Agreement in writing for the use of the data

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who expressed their refusal to participate in the study
• Patients unable to express their non-opposition to participating in the study
• Patients operated on for surgery for which it was highly probable that it would not be possible for them to answer the questionnaire postoperatively (first 24 hours)
• Patients who do not master the Arabic language, neither read nor spoken