Urdu Version of Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire: Reliability and Validity Study

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05432037

REC-FSD-00245

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to translate and culturally adapt Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire into the Urdu language and to investigate the reliability and validity in the Pakistani population and check its correlation with Visual Analog Scale , Ronald Morris Questionnaire, Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale .

Full description

As per preceding commendation, Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire will be translated into Urdu language from its English version and adapted culturally in Pakistan. Among low back pain population, Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire will be conducted in 180 patients recruited by convenience sampling technique under the pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria after signing consents forms. For testing inter-observer reliability and intra-observer reliability of Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire, Hospital anxiety and depression scale, Ronald Morris questionnaire, Quebec pain rating scale and numeric pain rating scale will be administrated by two observers, on the same day, with a time interval of 2 hours between 1st and 2nd conduction. As for the 3rd conduction, it will be carried out after seven days by the first observer, for intra-observer assessment. Statistical Package of Social Sciences software version 24 will be used for the purpose of data entry and analysis. Internal consistency will be assessed by using an intra-class correlation coefficient. The Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire will be evaluated for content validity, construct validity, criterion validity and responsiveness.

Enrollment: 180 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients or the ones next to them who gave informed consent
• Participants with complain of low back pain for more than 3 months.
• Age at least above 18 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to understand or follow the instructions of the Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire.
• Any musculoskeletal pathologies
• Suffering from any cardiovascular pathologies
• Any history of tumor and cancer
• Any history of fracture
• Any histories of infections
• Any history of neurological disorders
• Having any spinal deformity