Brazilian version of the Self-Estimated Functional Inability because of Pain questionnaire for musculoskeletal injuries relating to dance and sport: translation and cross-cultural adaptation

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INTRODUCTION Cross-cultural adaptations of questionnaires in developing countries, such as Brazil, have fostered a major debate involving the fields of economics, health, politics and culture. 1 Today, with the development and dissemination of the Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures 2 and of the Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN), 3 standardization of cross-cultural adaptation relating to culture, language and country is providing positive outcomes within scientific and clinical contexts. Within healthcare sciences, especially in the field of prevention and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries, it is common to use questionnaires to measure self-reported outcomes, mainly in relation to pain and functional disability. 4-6 Among the questionnaires for screening of musculoskeletal injuries, in addition to instruments that were created by researchers for specific evaluations, 7,8 the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) stands out through its widespread use for locating musculoskeletal pain in diverse populations. 9-12 However, the NMQ does not have a severity score, and it is not possible to use it to make inferences about functional disability. Therefore, as a way to fill this gap, the Self-Estimated Functional Inability because of Pain (SEFIP) questionnaire was developed and published in 1999. This is an instrument created based

Fear of Return to Sport Scale (FRESS): a new instrument for use in injured professional or recreational athletes in rehabilitation

“…The SEFIP-sport was validated for Brazilian Portuguese by Reis-Júnior et al [ 22 ] and Reis-Júnior et al [ 23 ] to measure musculoskeletal pain and disability related to sports practice in a regionalized way (considering the parts of the body separately). The SEFIP-sport is composed of 14 items, with responses on a 5-point Likert scale, where 0 represents “no pain” and 4 represents “I can’t play the sport because of the pain”.…”

Disability and pain in capoeira practitioners

“…In addition, the Self-Estimated Functional Inability because of Pain questionnaire (SEFIP-sport) was applied. This is an adapted and validated questionnaire for the Brazilian population 11,12 , composed of 14 items, each relating to one body part, and it is possible to mark one of the five answers for each item, which correspond to scores from 0 to 4 (total score ranges between 0 and 56 points). The higher the score, the higher the disability.…”

The Brazilian version of the Hip Sports Activity Scale: translation and cross-cultural adaptation

“…Many instruments have been developed in the English language. 11 , 12 For them to be used in populations with different languages and cultures, it is necessary to follow a set of steps for their translation, cultural adaptation and validation, in order to ensure that the new instrument maintains the characteristics of the original version. 13 , 14 …”