COSIDI
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Validation of the client oriented scale of improvement for dizziness and imbalance (COSIDI)
IRAS ID
328977
Contact name
Petroc Sumner
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cardiff University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 28 days
Research summary
The aim is to validate a new questionnaire tool for measuring vestibular rehabilitation progress. We will test the usefulness of the new tool during routine clinical practice, and compared its sensitivity against the main questionnaire currently used (which are found to take too long and not capture symptoms for all patients). We will also provide opportunity for brief qualitative feedback about usability of the new tool.
We are not proposing to change treatment in any way (e.g. compare rehabilitation approaches). We are adding the use of the new tool to routine practice alongside the existing questionnaire. At the end of the study clinical practice would keep whichever proves most useful and removing the other.
The reason this is research rather than service evaluation is that the tool is newly-designed and the data will be shared with the Cardiff University research team for analysis.
We have developed the Client Oriented Scale of Improvement for Dizziness and Imbalance (COSIDI), based on previously validated client-oriented scales used successfully for hearing aids (COSI, [4]) and for tinnitus (COSID, [5]), which are used in clinics internationally. The COSIDI follows proven principles of rehabilitation goal-setting and patient-oriented measurement.
COSIDI simply asks patients to list the 5 situations that they find are most problematic due to their dizziness or imbalance, and then to indicate a severity score for each situation. At follow up (after rehabilitation) they will then be asked for a new severity score for the same 5 situations.REC name
East Midlands - Leicester Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
23/EM/0174
Date of REC Opinion
25 Jul 2023
REC opinion
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