French validation of the Quality of life in Essential Tremor Questionnaire (QUEST) and the Essential Tremor Embarrassment Assessment (ETEA)

A Marques; I Rieu; B Pereira; G Castelnovo; F Fluchère; C Laurencin; B Degos; A Poujois; A Kreisler; S Sangla; M Tir; I Benatru; G Blanchet-Fourcade; D Guehl; D Gayraud; L Tatu; C Tranchant; M Simonetta-Moreau; F Durif

doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2023.03.030

French validation of the Quality of life in Essential Tremor Questionnaire (QUEST) and the Essential Tremor Embarrassment Assessment (ETEA)

Rev Neurol (Paris). 2023 Dec;179(10):1128-1133. doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2023.03.030. Epub 2023 Sep 19.

Authors

A Marques¹, I Rieu², B Pereira³, G Castelnovo⁴, F Fluchère⁵, C Laurencin⁶, B Degos⁷, A Poujois⁸, A Kreisler⁹, S Sangla¹⁰, M Tir¹¹, I Benatru¹², G Blanchet-Fourcade¹³, D Guehl¹⁴, D Gayraud¹⁵, L Tatu¹⁶, C Tranchant¹⁷, M Simonetta-Moreau¹⁸, F Durif²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, université Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS, institut Pascal, place Henri-Dunant, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. Electronic address: ar_marques@chu-clermontferrand.fr.
² Department of Neurology, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, université Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS, institut Pascal, place Henri-Dunant, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
³ Clinical Research Department, Biostatistics Unit, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
⁴ Service de neurologie, centre hospitalier universitaire Caremeau, 30029 Nîmes, France.
⁵ Department of Neurology and Movement Disorders, Timone Hospital, Aix-Marseille université, 13005 Marseille, France.
⁶ Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm, U 1028, CNRS, UMR 5292, Neuroplasticity and Neuropathology of Olfactory Perception team, université de Lyon, université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, 69000 Lyon, France; Service de neurologie C, hospices civils de Lyon (HCL), Pierre-Wertheimer Neurological Hospital, 69000 Lyon, France.
⁷ Service de neurologie, hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 93000 Bobigny, France; Dynamics and Pathophysiology of Neuronal Networks Team, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, collège de France, CNRS UMR7241/Inserm U1050, université Paris sciences & lettres (PSL), 75005 Paris, France.
⁸ Service de neurologie, hôpital Fondation Adolphe de Rothschild, 75019 Paris, France.
⁹ Service de neurologie A, Movement Disorders Unit, CHU de Lille, 59037 Lille, France.
¹⁰ Unité Parkinson, hôpital Adolphe de Fondation Rothschild, 75019 Paris, France.
¹¹ Department of Neurology and the Department of Neurosurgery, Expert Centre for Parkinson's Disease, Amiens University Hospital, 80054 Amiens, France; EA 4559 laboratoire de neurosciences fonctionnelles et pathologie (LNFP), University of Picardy Jules-Verne (UPJV), 80054 Amiens, France.
¹² Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Poitiers, 86000 Poitiers, France; Centre d'investigation clinique CIC1402, CHU de Poitiers, University of Poitiers, Inserm, 86000 Poitiers, France.
¹³ Service de neurologie, Narbonne Hospital Centre, 11100 Narbonne, France.
¹⁴ Centre hospitalier universitaire de Bordeaux, institut des maladies neurodégénératives, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
¹⁵ Service de neurologie, centre hospitalier intercommunal Aix-Pertuis, site d'Aix-en-Provence, avenue des Tamaris, 13616 Aix-en-Provence, France.
¹⁶ Department of Neuromuscular Diseases and Department of Anatomy, CHRU de Besançon, University of Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon, France.
¹⁷ Department of Neurology, CHU Hautepierre, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
¹⁸ Department of Neurology, Clinical Investigation Center (CIC 1436), Toulouse University Hospital, Inserm (ToNIC 1214), 31059 Toulouse, France.

PMID: 37735016
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2023.03.030

Abstract

Two scales have been developed and validated in English to evaluate the impact of tremor on daily life, namely Quality of life in Essential Tremor Questionnaire (QUEST) and Essential Tremor Embarrassment Assessment (ETEA). The psychometric properties of the French version of these two scales were assessed for 117 patients with head tremor. Both scales showed excellent acceptability, very good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient>0.8) and reproducibility (Lin concordance coefficient>0.8), satisfactory external validity and satisfactory sensitivity to change. In conclusion, the French versions of QUEST and ETEA are comprehensive, valid and reliable instruments for assessing patients with head tremor.

Keywords: Embarrassment; Essential head tremor; French validation of scales; Quality of life.

MeSH terms

Embarrassment
Essential Tremor* / diagnosis
Humans
Psychometrics
Quality of Life*
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
Tremor / diagnosis
Tremor / etiology