Translating the Dutch Walking Stairs, Walking Ability and Rising and Sitting Questionnaires into German and assessing their concurrent validity with VAS measures of pain and activities in daily living.
BACKGROUND
The Dutch Walking Stairs, Walking Ability and Rising and Sitting Questionnaires are three validated instruments to measure physical activity and limitations in daily living in patients with lower extremity disorders living at home of which no German equivalents are available. Our scope was to translate the Walking Stairs, Walking Ability and Rising and Sitting Questionnaires into German and to verify its concurrent validity in the two domains pain and activities in daily living by comparing them with the corresponding measures on the Visual Analogue Scale.


METHODS
We translated the Walking Stairs, Walking Ability and Rising and Sitting Questionnaires according to published guidelines. Demographic data and validity were assessed in 52 consecutive patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 1 of the lower extremity. Information on age, duration of symptoms, type of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 1 and type of initiating event were obtained. We assessed the concurrent validity in the two domains pain and activities in daily living by comparing them with the corresponding measures on the Visual Analogue Scale.


RESULTS
We found that variability in the German Walking Stairs, Walking Ability and Rising and Sitting Questionnaires was largely explained by measures of pain and activities in daily living on the Visual Analogue Scale.


CONCLUSIONS
Our study shows that the domains pain and activities in daily living are properly represented in the German versions of the Walking Stairs, Walking Ability and Raising and Sitting Questionnaires. We would like to propagate their use in clinical practice and research alike.
Department Physiotherapy, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
Carolin
C
Heitz
Lucas M
LM
Bachmann
Anne
A
Leibfried
Rudolf
R
Kissling
Alfons Gh
AG
Kessels
Roberto Sgm
RS
Perez
Johan
J
Marinus
Florian
F
Brunner
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003469:Culture; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D020233:Gait Disorders, Neurologic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D009426:Netherlands; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012019:Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating