A Reliability and Validity Study of Urdu Version of Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale.

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05207553

REC/FSD/0286

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will be intended to translate and check if the Urdu Version of Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale is reliable and valid in the Pakistani patients with anterior cruciate ligament injuries.

Full description

A detailed research will be conducted on nearly 100 patients after ethical approval from the Ethical Review Board of Riphah International University Faisalabad Campus. A total of 100 patients with Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries will be selected from different areas of community and rehabilitation centers. Informed consent will be taken from each patient. The tool will be used three times in the same Pakistani population with Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries to check inter and intra-observer reliability of the final Urdu-LKS. The Lysholm questionnaire translation will be carried out in 6 steps by the guidelines of the early researches and the Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments standard. Statistical Package of Social Sciences 23 will be employed to do data analysis.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 17 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• From17 years Old to 60 Years Old
• Presence of an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury or Ligament Repair
• No intervention between the test-retest assessments.

Exclusion criteria

• To complete the forms because of a psychological Impairment.
• Illiteracy or lack of understanding of Urdu Language
• Had a condition that couldn't be settled after a second assessment for different sicknesses like cancer, any other serious Infection, or inflammatory disease
• The presence of neurologic or musculoskeletal disorders other than the knee Condition.