Reproducibility of a low back pain questionnaire in Tunisian adolescents.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility of a 28-item survey questionnaire for back problems in Tunisian adolescents. A test-retest design was used to investigate the reproducibility of the results obtained using the said 28-item survey questionnaire. Participants were recruited from two schools in Monastir. Seventy-two adolescents from the seventh, eighth, and the ninth grade participated in the inquiry. They have a mean age of 14.01 years (SD 1.67, range 11-19). High levels of reproducibility were found for items that evaluated perceived characteristics of back problems and functional limitation (kappa coefficient=0.71-1.00). The results suggest that the questionnaire used in the present study provided reproducible information and can be used as a survey tool for the investigation of low back problems in adolescents.
Department of Rheumatology, EPS Monastir, 5000 Monastir, Tunisia. ismail.bejia@lycos.com
Ismail
I
Bejia
Nabiha
N
Abid
Kamel
K
Bensalem
Mongi
M
Touzi
Naceur
N
Bergaoui
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000295:Adolescent Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014416:Tunisia / Q000453:epidemiology