%0 Journal Article %T Design and evaluation of the psychometric properties of a self %A Anne Graissaguel %A Claudine Hamel-Desnos %A Delphine Sion %A Didier Rastel %A Fran£¿ois-Andr¨¦ Allaert %J Phlebology %@ 1758-1125 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0268355518762824 %X Patients¡¯ adherence to elastic compression stockings is difficult to evaluate, and therefore we create a short self-questionnaire and validate its psychometric properties. We reduce the questions with Varimed rotation analysis, evaluate its internal consistency using Cronbach¡¯s alpha test and its external validity by comparison to electronic thermic captors. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to determine a threshold and determine its sensitivity and specificity. The initial questionnaire was reduced from 22 to 5 questions rated from 0 to 4. The internal consistency and its external validity are good, and the ROC analysis shows that values£¿>£¿3 correspond to poor compliance with a sensitivity of 88.1% and a specificity of 63.1%. The adherence score is valid for the detection of patients poorly compliant to the wearing of elastic compression. Its small number of questions makes it a suitable for a screening in everyday practice %K Compression stockings %K compliance %K statistics %K venous disease %K chronic venous insufficiency %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0268355518762824