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Original Article
 

ESPRINT-15 Questionnaire (Spanish Version): Reference Values According to Disease Severity Using Both the Original and the Modified ARIA Classifications
 

ESPRINT Study Group: A Valero,1,2 I Izquierdo,3 J Sastre,4 AM Navarro,5 E Baró,6 E Martí-Guadaño,7 M Ferrer,8,9 I Dávila,10 A del Cuvillo,11 C Colás,12 I Antépara,13 J Alonso,8,9 J Mullol2,14

1Allergy Unit, Pneumology and Allergy Department, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain (Study Coordinator)
2CIBER in Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Spain
3Medical Department, J. Uriach y Compañia, Barcelona, Spain
4Allergology Department, Jiménez Díaz Foundation, Madrid, Spain
5Allergology Unit, El Tomillar Hospital, Dos Hermanas, Sevilla, Spain
63D Health Research, Barcelona, Spain
7Hospital Moises Broggi, Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, Spain
8Municipal Medical Research Institute, Epidemiology Department, Barcelona, Spain
9CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain
10Allergology Department, Hospital Clínico, Salamanca, Spain
11Dr. Lobatón Clinic, Allergology Department, Cadiz, Spain
12Allergology Department, “Lozano Blesa” Hospital Clinico, Zaragoza, Spain
13Allergology Department, Basurto Hospital, Bilbao, Spain
14Rhinology Unit & Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2013; Vol. 23(1): 14-19
 

 Abstract


Objective: ESPRINT-15 is a specific and validated instrument to measure health-related quality of life in adults with allergic rhinitis. The aim of this study was to obtain new reference values based on disease severity using both the original and the modified versions of the Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines.

Methods: ESPRINT-15 was administered to a representative sample of adults with allergic rhinitis in Spain. As in a previous study by our group, means and percentiles were analyzed for 16 quotas based on gender, allergic rhinitis type (intermittent vs persistent), and 4 symptom intensity groups according to the total symptom score (TSS4). The novel aspect of the present study was our application the severity criteria proposed by both the original and the modified ARIA classifications.

Results: Of the 2756 patients in our previous dataset, 2580 were included in the present analysis. In terms of symptom severity, women had relatively more intense symptoms than men with both ARIA classifications. In fact, using only the modified ARIA classification, we were able to determine that severe rhinitis is moderately more frequent in women (27% vs 23%), although the difference is not statistically significant.

Conclusions: The new set of reference values enables the ESPRINT-15 questionnaire to be adapted to the current severity classification. Consequently, this quality of life tool (http://www.seaic.org/inicio/esprint) can be easily used and better interpreted in daily clinical practice.

Key words: Allergic rhinitis. Quality of life. ESPRINT questionnaire (Spanish version). Reference values.