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Material and Methods: Linguistic validation was carried out according to the Linguistic Validation Manual for Patient-Reported Outcomes Instruments guidelines. Clinical validation was performed by enrolling fifty-four Tajik-speaking women. All women included in this study were first interviewed about the understandability of all questions and statements in the final Tajik ACSS and were asked to fill in form A at the first visit (diagnostics) and form B at any follow-up visit (patient-reported outcome). Results: Thirty-three women, median (range) age of 35 (18\u201377), were diagnosed with AC (patient group), while twenty-one women, median (range) age of 34 (20\u201361) (p = 0.109), were enrolled as the control group without any other urological disease. For the diagnostics of AC, a summary score of the six typical symptoms (\u201cTypical\u201d domain) showed the best balance between sensitivity (0.73) and specificity (0.71) at 5 and above. Cronbach\u2019s alpha [95% CI] and split-half reliability [95%] were 0.82 [0.76; 0.98] and 0.84 [0.77; 0.87], respectively. At the follow-up visit, the patients reported a significant reduction in the \u201cTypical\u201d domain and an improvement in the \u201cQuality of Life\u201d domain. 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