%0 Journal Article
%T Psychometric characteristics of the Spanish version of instruments to measure neck pain disability
%A Francisco M Kovacs
%A Joan Bag¨®
%A Ana Royuela
%A Jes¨²s Seco
%A Sergio Gim¨¦nez
%A Alfonso Muriel
%A V¨ªctor Abraira
%A Jos¨¦ Mart¨ªn
%A Jos¨¦ Pe£¿a
%A Mario Gestoso
%A Nicole Mufraggi
%A Montserrat N¨²£¿ez
%A Josep Corcoll
%A Ignacio G¨®mez-Ochoa
%A Ma Jos¨¦ Ram¨ªrez
%A Eva Calvo
%A Ma Dolores Castillo
%A David Mart¨ª
%A Salvador Fuster
%A Carmen Fern¨¢ndez
%A Nuria Gimeno
%A Alejandro Carballo
%A ¨¢lvaro Mil¨¢n
%A Dolores V¨¢zquez
%A Montserrat Ca£¿ellas
%A Ricardo Blanco
%A Pilar Brieva
%A Ma Trinidad Rueda
%A Luis ¨¢lvarez
%A Mar¨ªa del Real
%J BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
%D 2008
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2474-9-42
%X Translation/re-translation of the English versions of the NDI and the COM was done blindly and independently by a multidisciplinary team. The study was done in 9 primary care Centers and 12 specialty services from 9 regions in Spain, with 221 acute, subacute and chronic patients who visited their physician for NP: 54 in the pilot phase and 167 in the validation phase. Neck pain (VAS), referred pain (VAS), disability (NDI, COM and NPQ), catastrophizing (CSQ) and quality of life (SF-12) were measured on their first visit and 14 days later. Patients' self-assessment was used as the external criterion for pain and disability. In the pilot phase, patients' understanding of each item in the NDI and COM was assessed, and on day 1 test-retest reliability was estimated by giving a second NDI and COM in which the name of the questionnaires and the order of the items had been changed.Comprehensibility of NDI and COM were good. Minutes needed to fill out the questionnaires [median, (P25, P75)]: NDI. 4 (2.2, 10.0), COM: 2.1 (1.0, 4.9). Reliability: [ICC, (95%CI)]: NDI: 0.88 (0.80, 0.93). COM: 0.85 (0.75,0.91). Sensitivity to change: Effect size for patients having worsened, not changed and improved between days 1 and 15, according to the external criterion for disability: NDI: -0.24, 0.15, 0.66; NPQ: -0.14, 0.06, 0.67; COM: 0.05, 0.19, 0.92. Validity: Results of NDI, NPQ and COM were consistent with the external criterion for disability, whereas only those from NDI were consistent with the one for pain. Correlations with VAS, CSQ and SF-12 were similar for NDI and NPQ (absolute values between 0.36 and 0.50 on day 1, between 0.38 and 0.70 on day 15), and slightly lower for COM (between 0.36 and 0.48 on day 1, and between 0.33 and 0.61 on day 15). Correlation between NDI and NPQ: r = 0.84 on day 1, r = 0.91 on day 15. Correlation between COM and NPQ: r = 0.63 on day 1, r = 0.71 on day 15.Although most psychometric characteristics of NDI, NPQ and COM are similar, those from the lat
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