Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25 to Greek

Table 1 Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25 scores (n = 84)

KTQ-25 dimensions	Mean	SD
Physical symptoms	3.98	1.60
Fatigue	5.30	1.36
Uncertainty/fear	5.16	1.33
Appearance	6.31	0.94
Emotion	5.03	1.07
Total score	5.20	0.87

KTQ-25: Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25.

Table 2 Correlation coefficients among Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25 dimensions

		Physical symptoms	Fatigue	Uncertainty/fear	Appearance	Emotion
Physical symptoms	Pearson correlation		0.354b	0.226a	0.187	0.395c
Fatigue	Pearson correlation			0.487c	0.182	0.584c
Uncertainty/fear	Pearson correlation				0.073	0.644c
Appearance	Pearson correlation					0.193

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.

Table 3 Correlation coefficients among Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25 dimensions and SF-36 (n = 84)

KTQ-25 dimensions	PCS	MCS
Physical symptoms	0.143	0.260a
Fatigue	0.550a	0.528a
Uncertainty/fear	0.304a	0.605a
Appearance	0.196a	0.023
Emotion	0.278	0.655a
Total Score	0.455	0.613a

^aP < 0.05.

KTQ-25: Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25; MCS: Mental component summary; PCS: Physical component summary.

Table 4 Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (n = 84)

KTQ-25 dimensions	Cronbach’s alpha	Items
Physical symptoms	0.639	6
Fatigue	0.856	5
Uncertainty/fear	0.661	4
Appearance	0.593	4
Emotion	0.718	6
Total Score	0.708	25

KTQ-25: Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25.