Thai Version of Functional Rating Index

Questionnaire Clinical Trial

Official title:

Thai Version of the Functional Rating Index for Patients With Back and Neck Pain: Cross-cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties Testing

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03164824
• Other study ID #: MahidolU_Wunpen3
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 8, 2017
• Last updated: May 22, 2017
• Start date: April 2009
• Est. completion date: April 2011

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: Mahidol University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purposes of this study were to conduct cross-cultural adaptation of the Functional Rating Index (FRI), to test psychometric properties of the translated questionnaire and to examine head-to-head comparisons with other questionnaires.

Description:

This study comprised 2 major stages: 1) Cross-cultural adaptation and 2) psychometric properties testing.

Cross-cultural adaptation stage:

The FRI was cross-culturally adapted to Thai following the well-accepted guideline for the process of cross-cultural adaptation of self-report measure.

Psychometric properties testing stage:

The patients with back or neck pain completed the questionnaires at the first visit, the second visit and at 2-week (or at discharge or when reporting 80% improvement from the first visit).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 247
• Est. completion date: April 2011
• Est. primary completion date: April 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 85 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

The participants were eligible if they were:

1. aged 18 years or older

2. seeking physical therapy treatment for a complaint of back and/or neck pain

3. able to understand, read, speak and write Thai

Exclusion Criteria:

The participants who were not willing to take part in the study, unable to understand, read, speak and write Thai were excluded from this study.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Questionnaire

Intervention

Other:
• questionnaire
Cross-cultural adaptation stage: The FRI was cross-culturally adapted to Thai (called the Thai FRI) and the pre-final version of the Thai FRI was administered to patients. Psychometric properties testing stage: The questionnaires were administered 3 times: the first visit, the second visit and at 2 weeks. At the first visit: the patients with back pain completed the Thai FRI , Thai Roland-Morris Disability (Thai RM), Thai modified Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability (Thai modified ODQ), Thai multi-level Roland-Morris Disability (Thai multi-level RM). The patients with neck pain completed the Thai FRI and Thai Neck Disability Index. At the second visit: all patients completed the Thai FRI and Global Perceived Effect Scale (GPES). At 2 weeks: the patients completed the same questionnaires as the first visit. All patients and their treating physical therapists completed the GPES.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Mahidol University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	questionnaire scores at the first visit	Back pain group: questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI, Thai RM, Thai modified ODQ, Thai multi-level RM; Neck pain group: questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI and Thai Neck Disability Index	20-25 minutes each time
Secondary	questionnaire scores at the second visit	questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI	5 minutes each time
Secondary	Global Perceived Effect Scale (GPES) at the second visit	7-point GPES	3 minutes each time
Secondary	questionnaire scores at 2 weeks	Back pain group: questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI, Thai RM, Thai modified ODQ, Thai multi-level RM; Neck pain group: Thai FRI, Thai Neck Disability Index	20-25 minutes each time
Secondary	Global Perceived Effect Scale (GPES) at 2 weeks	7-point GPES	3 minutes each time