Development and validation of a questionnaire designed to measure foot-health status.
The aim of this study was to apply the principles of content, criterion, and construct validation to a new questionnaire specifically designed to measure foot-health status. One hundred eleven subjects completed two different questionnaires designed to measure foot health (the new Foot Health Status Questionnaire and the previously validated Foot Function Index) and underwent a clinical examination in order to provide data for a second-order confirmatory factor analysis. Presented herein is a psychometrically evaluated questionnaire that contains 13 items covering foot pain, foot function, footwear, and general foot health. The tool demonstrates a high degree of content, criterion, and construct validity and test-retest reliability.
School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. p.bennett@qut.edu.au
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005528:Foot / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*