NCT03164824

Thai Version of Functional Rating Index

Thai Version of the Functional Rating Index for Patients With Back and Neck Pain: Cross-cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties Testing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 247 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mahidol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purposes of this study were to conduct cross-cultural adaptation of the Functional Rating Index (FRI), to test psychometric properties of the translated questionnaire and to examine head-to-head comparisons with other questionnaires.

Detailed description

This study comprised 2 major stages: 1) Cross-cultural adaptation and 2) psychometric properties testing. Cross-cultural adaptation stage: The FRI was cross-culturally adapted to Thai following the well-accepted guideline for the process of cross-cultural adaptation of self-report measure. Psychometric properties testing stage: The patients with back or neck pain completed the questionnaires at the first visit, the second visit and at 2-week (or at discharge or when reporting 80% improvement from the first visit).

Conditions

• Questionnaire

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questionnaire	Cross-cultural adaptation stage: The FRI was cross-culturally adapted to Thai (called the Thai FRI) and the pre-final version of the Thai FRI was administered to patients. Psychometric properties testing stage: The questionnaires were administered 3 times: the first visit, the second visit and at 2 weeks. At the first visit: the patients with back pain completed the Thai FRI , Thai Roland-Morris Disability (Thai RM), Thai modified Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability (Thai modified ODQ), Thai multi-level Roland-Morris Disability (Thai multi-level RM). The patients with neck pain completed the Thai FRI and Thai Neck Disability Index. At the second visit: all patients completed the Thai FRI and Global Perceived Effect Scale (GPES). At 2 weeks: the patients completed the same questionnaires as the first visit. All patients and their treating physical therapists completed the GPES.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2011-04-01
• Completion: 2011-04-01
• First posted: 2017-05-24
• Last updated: 2017-05-24