Psychometric Properties of an Arabic Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale-20 (PASS-20) in Healthy Volunteers and Patients Attending a Physiotherapy Clinic.
The aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the PASS-20 questionnaire for use in Libya.



Participants were 71 patients (42 women) attending the physiotherapy clinic, Ibn Sina Hospital, Sirt, Libya for management of persistent pain and 137 healthy unpaid undergraduate students (52 women) from the University of Sirt, Libya. The English PASS-20 was translated into Arabic. Patients completed the Arabic PASS-20 and the Arabic Pain Rating Scales on two occasions separated by a 14-day interval. Healthy participants completed the Arabic PASS-20 on one occasion.



The internal consistency (ICC) for pain patient and healthy participant samples yielded a good reliability for the total score, cognitive anxiety, fear of pain, and physiological anxiety. The test-retest reliability of the Arabic PASS-20 score showed high reliability for the total score (ICC = 0.93, p < 0.001), escape/avoidance (ICC = 0.93, p < 0.001), fear of pain (ICC = 0.94, p < 0.001), and physiological anxiety subscales (ICC = 0.96, p < 0.001) and good reliability for the cognitive anxiety (ICC = 0.85, p < 0.001). Inspection of the Promax rotation showed that each factor comprised of five items were consistent with the theoretical constructs of the original PASS-20 subscales.



The Arabic PASS-20 retained internal consistency and reliability with the original English version and can be used to measure pain anxiety symptoms in both pain and healthy individual samples in Libya.
Centre for Pain Research, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. O.tashani@LeedsBeckett.ac.uk.|MENA research group, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK. O.tashani@LeedsBeckett.ac.uk.
Osama A
OA
Tashani
Centre for Pain Research, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.|Sirte University, Sirte, Libya.
Oras A
OA
AlAbas
Sirte University, Sirte, Libya.|Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.
Raafat A M
RAM
Kabil
Centre for Pain Research, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.|MENA research group, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.
Mark I
MI
Johnson
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
Anxiety; Fear of pain; Libya; Pain; Psychometric analysis