Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Basic Science

Background: Shoulder pain is common chief complains presenting in current orthopedic practices. The Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) is the only one that covers, not only shoulder pain frequency and severity, but also quality of life and activity of daily living affected by shoulder illness. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to test the face validity, the content validity, the feasibility; the internal consistency reliability and the test retest reliability of Arabic-language version of OSS in assessment of shoulder joint pain. Subjects and methods: Three expert panels (each consists of ten experts) and 43 patients with shoulder join pain caused by degenerative or inflammatory disorders participated in this study, 86 sheets (including retest sheets) were filled out in this study considering that patient filled out 2 sheets. Forward translation, development of preliminary initially translated version, backward translation, development of the pre-final version and testing of pre-final version using experts then testing of the final version on patients was done. Clarity index, expert proportion of clearance, index of content validity, expert proportion of relevance, descriptive statistics, missed item index, time taken to answer the scale, Cronbach{u2019}s coefficient alpha and spearman{u2019}s rank correlation coefficients were used for statistical analysis

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