Body awareness and chronic low back pain : validity and reliability study of Turkish version of body awareness rating scale

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Background/aim: Previous studies reported that patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) had trouble describing senses or body functions. A questionnaire, the body awareness rating questionnaire (BARQ), was recently developed for assessing body awareness. The aim of the study was to develop a Turkish version of the BARQ and investigate the validity and reliability in patients with CLBP.

Materials and methods: BARQ translated to Turkish with forward-backward method. Ninety-nine patients with CLBP and 101 healthy controls (HC) completed the BARQ-T. Fifty-one of patients with CLBP and HC repeated BARQ-T 3 days later. In addition to BARQ-T, Oswestry disability index (ODI), pain severity, short form 36 (SF-36) and Toronto alexithymia scale (TAS) were administered.

Results: The current study found good-excellent Cronbach’s alpha values for patients with CLBP (α: between 0.883–0.967) and acceptable-good Cronbach’s alpha values for HC (α: between 0.649–0.825) in factors of BARQ-T. ICC values for test-retest validity were found to be good-excellent for patients with CLBP in all factors. BARQ-T was positively correlated with SF-36 and negatively correlated with ODI and TAS (P < 0.05).

Conclusion: The study confirmed that the BARQ-T has acceptable validation and reliability in terms of pain perception and pain assessment in the Turkish CLBP community.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Turkish journal of medical sciences - 50(2020), 4 vom: 23. Juni, Seite 849-854

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Demirel, Aynur [VerfasserIn]
Onan, Dilara [VerfasserIn]
Özel Asliyüce, Yasemin [VerfasserIn]
Öz, Müzeyyen [VerfasserIn]
Berberoğlu, Utku [VerfasserIn]
Ülger, Özlem [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Body image
Chronic pain
Journal Article
Low back pain
Reproducibility of results
Validation Study

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 25.10.2021

Date Revised 25.10.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3906/sag-1911-110

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM308689186