The Aim of Study is Translate and Adapt the Visual Analog Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS-FA) Instrument Into Turkish and Psycho-metrically Test Its Reliability and Validity Among Patients Who Had Foot and Ankle Disorders or Surgery

Hasan Kalyoncu University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Foot Injuries and Disorders; Ankle Injuries and Disorders

Treatments: Other: VAS-FA Turkish version

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03262324

2017-09

Details and patient eligibility

About

There have previously been no validated a specific foot and ankle patient-reported outcome measures in Turkish. The Visual Analogue Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS-FA) will translated and adapted into Turkish language. Thereafter, 200 patients who had foot and ankle disorders or surgery will complete VAS-FA questionnaire set on two separate occasions. Analyses included testing of floor-ceiling effect, internal consistency, reproducibility, and validity.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 65

• Participants who have foot and ankle disorders

• Participants must have an orthopedic intervention last 3 months;

  1. Conservative intervention
  2. Surgery intervention

Exclusion criteria

• Age less than 18 or more than 65

• Positive medical history concerning the entire lower extremity,

  1. Diabetes mellitus
  2. Drug abuse
  3. Psychiatric diseases
  4. Rheumatoid arthritis
  5. Neurological diseases