45 years and older patients's evaluation of peripheral artery disease with ankle brachial index and of quality of life: with sf-36 " study of wiq's reliability and validity

Objective: It was aimed to assess PAD with ABI and quality of life with the SF-36, "Walking Impairment Questionnaire" (WIQ), determine the validity and reliability of Turkish. Methods: 283 volunteers participants a family health center in Izmir Balçova participated in this research. Following the history and physical examination methods by the researcher; ABI values were calculated, determining whether peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and the quality of life were evaluated with scale of the SF36. By applying WIQ, adapted to Turkish, questionnaire twice with an interval of 2-4 weeks, test-retest analyzes were conducted. And SF-36 were calculated for the relationship between WIQ validity, internal consistency, Cronbach's alpha was calculated. SPSS 15.0 software was used for analysis and p <0.05 was considered significant. Results: The 11.7% of the patients (33) is found ABI <0.90 is considered as PAD. WIQ compared with SF-36 physical function subscale the relationship was strong, the emotional subscale had weak role and the other subscales were moderately correlated. Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency WIQ the total score was 0882. Conclusion: As a result of this study; Turkish version of WIQ was found to be a reliable,validity clinical tool for the assessment of the decrease walking function in patients with peripheral arterial Key words: Peripheral Arterial Disease, Ankle brachial index, WIQ, SF-36