This committee evaluated those health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires that have been developed specifically for patients with pelvic organ prolapse. This includes evaluating the validity and reliability of this family of HRQoL questionnaires with an aim toward recommending which tools have clinical versus research value and the strength behind these recommendations. This committee also evaluated which HRQol questionnaires have been translated into other languages and the rigor of this translation process to make recommendations on which tools can be reliably used in which languages. Final recommendations on how to use these tools in; 1). clinical practice to aid clinicians with identify those patients with clinically significant pelvic organ prolapse and 2). research applications for both epidemiology studies and therapeutic trials.
Steering Committee Advisor: Maria Bortolini (Brazil)
Committee Chairs: Rebecca Rogers (USA) and Sara Cichowski (USA)
Committee Members: Mageed Abdelrahman (United Kingdom), Ahmed Al-Badr (Saudi Arabia), Montserrat Espuña (Spain), Magdalena Grzybowska (Poland), Gabriela Halder (USA), Sierra Jansen (USA), Swati Jha (United Kingdom), Daniela Ulrich (Austria)