2017 journal article

Severity of Nasal Inflammatory Disease Questionnaire for Canine Idiopathic Rhinitis Control: Instrument Development and Initial Validity Evidence

JOURNAL OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE, 31(1), 134–141.

By: L. Greene n, K. Royal n , J. Bradley n, B. Lascelles  n, L. Johnson * & E. Hawkins n 

author keywords: Lymphoplasmacytic; Psychometrics; Survey
MeSH headings : Animals; Case-Control Studies; Dog Diseases / prevention & control; Dogs; Female; Humans; Male; Ownership; Pain, Intractable / prevention & control; Pain, Intractable / veterinary; Quality of Life; Reproducibility of Results; Rhinitis / prevention & control; Rhinitis / veterinary; Severity of Illness Index; Surveys and Questionnaires; Symptom Assessment
TL;DR: The SNIFLD questionnaire provides a mechanism for repeated assessments of disease severity in dogs with chronic rhinitis and strong psychometric evidence was available to support the substantive, generalizability, content, and structural aspects of construct validity. (via Semantic Scholar)
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BackgroundEffective treatments are needed for idiopathic chronic rhinitis in dogs, but assessment of efficacy requires a practical, quantifiable method for assessing severity of disease.