Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI): development, content validation and reproducibility

Abstract

The BackPEI constitutes a valid and reproducible instrument which is relevant for the evaluation of back pain and its associated risk factors.

Questionnaire on body awareness of postural habits in young people: construction and validation

“…In addition to the self-perception questionnaire, the students were evaluated with respect to their sitting postural habit by way of kinematics. Low correlation was found between self-perception and the behavior observed amongst the young people, and despite the information retained, the participants of the intervention did not improve their self-effectiveness in relation to their back-care behavior [24]. Despite the low correlation between the image perceived and the image observed, questions leading the young people to an awareness of their own posture were chosen for the Q-BAPHYP.…”

“…For the effectiveness of the construction of a questionnaire, Noll et al [24] and Rubio et al [25] recommend: 1 -carrying out field research and a broad literature review; 2 -selecting judges with experience in the research area and in teaching and research; 3 -all the judges must follow the same evaluation script, but at the same time they have the possibility to suggest and comment on the questions at will; 4 -the reformulated version or version in consensus must be approved by the judges; 5 -the quantitative and qualitative procedures must be used in the validation to evaluate each question; 6 -testing the questionnaire with a target group by way of a qualitative analysis of the answers to the questionnaire. The Q-BAPHYP followed all the recommendations, which contributed to the facility observed in answering the instrument with respect to clarity and pertinence.…”

“…The Q-BAPHYP followed all the recommendations, which contributed to the facility observed in answering the instrument with respect to clarity and pertinence. Although self-reporting instruments are subjective, they are conditioned to time and memory, and good reproducibility was reported in studies by Noll et al [24], Candotti et al [26] and Cardon et al [27]. Noll et al [24] developed the "Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI)", which in addition to the awareness of postural habits evaluates the prevalence of back pain, demographic aspects, social-economics, and inherited and behavioral factors.…”

“…Although self-reporting instruments are subjective, they are conditioned to time and memory, and good reproducibility was reported in studies by Noll et al [24], Candotti et al [26] and Cardon et al [27]. Noll et al [24] developed the "Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI)", which in addition to the awareness of postural habits evaluates the prevalence of back pain, demographic aspects, social-economics, and inherited and behavioral factors. The instrument was applied to 260 young people from 11 to 16 years old in a city in the south of Brazil, and was shown to have very good (k > 0.8) or good (0.6 < k ≤ 0.8) reproducibility (as from the k -kappa coefficient), and 100% concordance (test and retest) for a question related to school material and lower reproducibility for the questions investigating the sitting posture (watching TV, using the computer or other activities).…”

Prevalência de hábitos posturais inadequados de escolares do Ensino Fundamental da cidade de Teutônia: um estudo de base populacional

“…Deste modo, justifica-se a realização do presente estudo, que teve como objetivo verificar a prevalência de hábitos posturais inadequados de escolares do Ensino Fundamental da cidade de Teutônia, estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, a partir de um estudo de base populacional. (NOLL et al, 2012b). O BackPEI é um questionário válido e reprodutível, constituído por 21 questões fechadas que possui uma versão para cada sexo (vide em Anexo).…”