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Table 1 Comparability of the language

From: Arabic translation and validation of Pelvic Pain and Urgency/Frequency (PUF) Patient Symptom Scale

Comparability of the language

Original item

Item of back-translated version

Mean  ±  SD

1. How many times do you go to the bathroom during the day?

1. How many times you urinate during the day?

1.4 ± 0.71

2a. How many times do you go to the bathroom at night?

2a. How Many times you wake up to urinate at night?

2.03 ± 0.71

b. If you get up at night to go to the bathroom, does it bother you?

b. If you wake up at night to urinate, does that bother you?

1.4 ± 0.71

3. Are you currently sexually active? YES___NO___

3. Are you currently sexually active? (Yes)(no)

1.36 ± 0.00

4a. IF YOU ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE, do you now or have you ever had pain or symptoms during or after sexual intercourse?

4a. If you are sexually active, do you complain now or have you ever had a pain or other symptoms during or after the sexual intercourse?

1.33 ± 0.0O

b. If you have pain, does it make you avoid sexual intercourse?

b. In case of pain, do you avoid sexual intercourse?

1.46 ± 0.71

5. Do you have pain associated with your bladder or in your pelvis (vagina, labia, lower abdomen, urethra, perineum, testes, or scrotum)?

5. Do you have bladder or pelvic pain (vagina, labia lower abdomen, urethra—Urinary Tract, perineum ‘area between the vulva and anus’, testicles, or scrotum)?

1.3 ± 0.00

6. Do you still have urgency after you go to the bathroom?

6. Does the urge to urinate continue after urinating?

1.63 ± 0.00

7a. If you have pain, is it usually:

7a. If you have pain, is it usually:

1.53 ± 0.71

b. Does your pain bother you?

B. Does your pain bother you?

1.56 ± 0.0O

8a. If you have urgency, is it usually:

8a. If you have an urgent urge to urinate, is it....

1.4 ± 0.00

b. Does your urgency bother you?

b. Does Urine urgency bother you?

1.56 ± 0.00