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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Questionnaire
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: questionnaire

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).

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 247

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 85 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

From physical therapy department in 9 settings in Thailand

Description

Inclusion Criteria

The participants were eligible if they were:

1. aged 18 years or older
2. seeking physical therapy treatment for a complaint of back and/or neck pain
3. able to understand, read, speak and write Thai

Exclusion Criteria:

The participants who were not willing to take part in the study, unable to understand, read, speak and write Thai were excluded from this study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
questionnaire scores at the first visit	Back pain group: questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI, Thai RM, Thai modified ODQ, Thai multi-level RM; Neck pain group: questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI and Thai Neck Disability Index	20-25 minutes each time

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
questionnaire scores at the second visit	questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI	5 minutes each time
Global Perceived Effect Scale (GPES) at the second visit	7-point GPES	3 minutes each time
questionnaire scores at 2 weeks	Back pain group: questionnaire scores from the Thai FRI, Thai RM, Thai modified ODQ, Thai multi-level RM; Neck pain group: Thai FRI, Thai Neck Disability Index	20-25 minutes each time
Global Perceived Effect Scale (GPES) at 2 weeks	7-point GPES	3 minutes each time

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Mahidol University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Wunpen Chansirinukor, PhD, Mahidol University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): April 1, 2011
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): April 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 8, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 22, 2017
• First Posted (ACTUAL): May 24, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): May 24, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 22, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Questionnaire; Cross-cultural adaptation; Functional Rating Index; Psychometric properties testing
• Other Study ID Numbers: MahidolU_Wunpen3

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO