Palestine became a predominantly Arab country with a Muslim majority in the late seventh century.Known to the entire Muslim world by its Arabic name,Filastin,Palestine’s physical characteristics and boundaries were c...Palestine became a predominantly Arab country with a Muslim majority in the late seventh century.Known to the entire Muslim world by its Arabic name,Filastin,Palestine’s physical characteristics and boundaries were consolidated in the seventh century.In the case of the Palestinian version of Arabic Nationalism,language was also crucial to the formation of a national identity.At the turn of the 20th century,the Ottoman Empire and all its constituents started losing land and power,many provinces,including Palestine,were left to consider their options.Standard Arabic provides a medium of communication over the vast geographical area whose numerous and widely diverse local dialects it transcends and the Levantine Arabic spoken by Palestinians in the Diaspora gives the Palestinians in many countries a sense of identity and awareness of their common cultural heritage.展开更多
AIM:To develop and test an Arabic version of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25(NEI-VFQ-25).METHODS:NEI-VFQ-25 was translated into Arabic according to WHO translation guidelines. We enrolled a...AIM:To develop and test an Arabic version of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25(NEI-VFQ-25).METHODS:NEI-VFQ-25 was translated into Arabic according to WHO translation guidelines. We enrolled adult consenting patients with bilateral chronic eye diseases who presented to 14 hospitals across Egypt from October to December 2012, and documented their clinical findings. Psychometric properties were then tested using STATA.RESULTS:We recruited 379 patients, whose mean age was(54.5±15)y. Of 46.2% were males, 227 had cataract,31 had glaucoma, 23 had retinal detachment, 37 had diabetic retinopathy, and 61 had miscellaneous visual defects. Non-response rate and the floor and ceiling numbers of the Arabic version(ARB-VFQ-25) were calculated. Internal consistency was high in all subscales(except general health), with Cronbach-α ranging from0.702-0.911. Test-retest reliability was high(intraclass correlation coefficient 0.79).CONCLUSION:RB-VFQ-25 isareliableandvalidtool for assessing visual functions of Arabic speaking patients. However, some questions had high non-response rates and should be substituted by available alternatives. Our results support the importance of including self-reported visual functions as part of routine ophthalmologic examination.展开更多
文摘Palestine became a predominantly Arab country with a Muslim majority in the late seventh century.Known to the entire Muslim world by its Arabic name,Filastin,Palestine’s physical characteristics and boundaries were consolidated in the seventh century.In the case of the Palestinian version of Arabic Nationalism,language was also crucial to the formation of a national identity.At the turn of the 20th century,the Ottoman Empire and all its constituents started losing land and power,many provinces,including Palestine,were left to consider their options.Standard Arabic provides a medium of communication over the vast geographical area whose numerous and widely diverse local dialects it transcends and the Levantine Arabic spoken by Palestinians in the Diaspora gives the Palestinians in many countries a sense of identity and awareness of their common cultural heritage.
文摘AIM:To develop and test an Arabic version of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25(NEI-VFQ-25).METHODS:NEI-VFQ-25 was translated into Arabic according to WHO translation guidelines. We enrolled adult consenting patients with bilateral chronic eye diseases who presented to 14 hospitals across Egypt from October to December 2012, and documented their clinical findings. Psychometric properties were then tested using STATA.RESULTS:We recruited 379 patients, whose mean age was(54.5±15)y. Of 46.2% were males, 227 had cataract,31 had glaucoma, 23 had retinal detachment, 37 had diabetic retinopathy, and 61 had miscellaneous visual defects. Non-response rate and the floor and ceiling numbers of the Arabic version(ARB-VFQ-25) were calculated. Internal consistency was high in all subscales(except general health), with Cronbach-α ranging from0.702-0.911. Test-retest reliability was high(intraclass correlation coefficient 0.79).CONCLUSION:RB-VFQ-25 isareliableandvalidtool for assessing visual functions of Arabic speaking patients. However, some questions had high non-response rates and should be substituted by available alternatives. Our results support the importance of including self-reported visual functions as part of routine ophthalmologic examination.
