Validation of the Toronto Psoriatic Arthritis Screen II (ToPAS II) questionnaire in a Brazilian population.

Clinical Rheumatology
Rafaela Silva Guimaraes GonçalvesAngela Luzia Branco Pinto Duarte

Abstract

The Toronto Psoriatic Arthritis Screen II (ToPAS II) was developed as a tool to screen patients with probable psoriatic arthritis. We aimed to evaluate the validation of the ToPAS II questionnaire in a Brazilian population. The Portuguese translation of the ToPAS II was sent to us by the developer authors of the original index, and adapted to Brazilian Portuguese. Subjects were recruited from dermatology, general, and rheumatology outpatient clinics. After patients completed the questionnaire, they were assessed by a rheumatologist, according to standard protocol. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) was used to obtain the sensitivity and specificity of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the ToPAS II questionnaire. One hundred and eighty-four subjects were recruited in the study. There were 70 subjects from the psoriasis group, 44 subjects from the psoriatic arthritis (PsA) group, 40 subjects from the rheumatology (non-PsA) group, and 45 healthy controls. Twenty-four patients (34.3%) in the psoriasis group had inflammatory pain and met the CASPAR classification criteria. The area under the ROC curve was 0.96, which indicates that an excellent predictor and optimum cutoff threshold to discriminate patients diagnosed with Ps...Continue Reading

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