Cross-cultural adaptation of the 12-item Örebro musculoskeletal screening questionnaire to Japanese (ÖMSQ-12-J), reliability and clinicians’ impressions for practicality

Abstract

[Purpose] To translate and culturally adapt the Örebro Musculoskeletal Screening Questionnaire (ÖMSQ-12) into Japanese (ÖMSQ-12-J), and to preliminarily investigate practicality from the clinicians’ perspectives, and determine inter-session reliability. [Subjects and Methods] This study included four phases: cross-cultural adaptation (Phases 1–2); survey among 14 clinicians (two medical doctors and 12 physiotherapists) about the practicality of using the questionnaire in six perspectives (speed of evaluation/treatment; capacity to detect patients with yellow flags; attitude towards management with bio-psycho-social perspectives; quality of evaluation/treatment; considerations of communications with patients at history-taking, physical assessments and interventions; and general clinical usefulness) based on their experiences with patients (Phase 3); and investigation of inter-session reliability among 50 patients with musculoskeletal disorders (Phase 4). [Results] The ÖMSQ-12-J was developed in Phases 1–2 using the recommended international guidelines for cultural adaptation and translation. In Phase 3, most responses were in the 3-positive options (35.7–78.6%). In Phase 4, the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient for each item ranged from 0.71–0.99 and 0.92 for the total score. [Conclusion] This study developed the ÖMSQ-12-J, which has preliminary evidence of good practicality and moderate-strong inter-session reliability. Further investigation is required to determine the predictive and prognostic capacity within a problematic musculoskeletal Japanese population.

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Cross-cultural adaptation, validity, and reliability of the Nepali version of the Exercise Adherence Rating Scale: a methodological study

“…Beaton Guidelines is one of the commonly used guidelines for the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of measurement tools [7]. As per the suggestion from the developer of the tool, Dr. Emma L Godfrey, we considered (a) Beaton guidelines and (b) evidence of cross-cultural adaptation process followed in a study by Takasaki et al, in 2017 [7,9] to cross-culturally adapt the EARS into Nepali language. The five steps of cross-cultural adaptation were; forward translation, synthesis, back translation, expert committee review, and pre-testing, which are described in Fig.…”

“…The purpose of the back translation was for validity checking to make sure that the adapted version was reflecting the same item content as the original version [10]. The back-translated versions were reviewed, and a consensus version was developed [7,9].…”

Cross-cultural adaptation, validity, and reliability of the Nepali version of the Exercise Adherence Rating Scale: A methodological study

“…Cross-cultural adaptation: Beaton Guidelines is one of the commonly used guidelines for the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of measurement tools [7]. As per the suggestion from the developer of the tool, Dr. Emma L Godfrey, we considered (a) Beaton guidelines and (b) evidence of cross-cultural adaptation process followed in a study by Takasaki et al, in 2017 [7,9] to cross-culturally adapt the EARS into Nepali language. The ve steps of cross-cultural adaptation were; forward translation, synthesis, back translation, expert committee review, and pre-testing, which are described in Figure 1.…”