Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

There is currently a lack of an operational questionnaire adapted specifically to primary care research and practice contexts, which could be self-reported by patients and that allows researchers/clinicians to measure multimorbidity. A new questionnaire was therefore created for this purpose, the MM21, but had yet to undergo a process of validation. This study presents the final results of the validation of the newly developed questionnaire. This validation process aims to assess if the questionnaire is a suitable measure of multimorbidity as well as if the results of the questionnaire are reproducible after a period of time for the same individual. The results of the study are very good in terms of the appropriateness of the MM21 to measure multimorbidity as well as excellent in terms of reproducibility of patient responses after a 3 week period of time. The results of this study have been submitted to North American Primary care Research group annual meeting 2016 and accepted for a presentation. This opportunity of knowledge translation will help inform users about this new questionnaire tested in a primary care context.