Arabic Version of the EARS Questionnaire (EARS-Ar)

Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Standard treatment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04909099

IRB-2020-PT-039

Details and patient eligibility

About

A study to translate and cross-culturally adapt the Exercise Adherence Rating Scale (EARS) into the Arabic language, and assess its psychometric properties.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Low back pain patients: aged 18 years or older, experienced non-specific CLBP of 3 months or longer, pain localized to the lumbar region.
• Knee OA patients: eligible participants must meet the knee OA diagnostic criteria according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR).

Exclusion criteria

• degenerative systemic diseases
• neurological symptoms
• lumbar stenosis
• spondylolisthesis
• history of spinal or knee surgeries
• pregnancy
• rheumatoid arthritis
• serious pathological conditions (inflammatory arthritis and malignancy)
• individuals who cannot read and understand documents written in the Arabic language.

Trial design

120 participants in 1 patient group

Knee Ostearthritis/ Low Bakc Pain

Description:

Patients referred for physical therapy rehabilitation

Treatment:

Other: Standard treatment