TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Mohammed Mohammed Ibrahim Elbeltagy AU - Sohair S. Rezk Allah , AU - Wadida H. Elsayed , TI - Validity and reliability of arabic version of copenhagen neck functional disability scale inpatientswith neck pain / PY - 2018/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Mohammed Mohammed Ibrahim Elbeltagy , KW - Arabic CNFDS KW - Reliability KW - Validity N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Basic Science; Issued also as CD N2 - Background:The Copenhagen Neck Functional Disability Scale (CNFDS) is a tool for self-assessment of cervicalillnesses,originally developed in English, ofwhich there is, no translation into Arabic language. The process involvedin thisresearchproved to be relevant to be functional and applicable in Arabic Language. Thus, once this has been carried out, many health professionals will benefit fromthis version in their clinical practice.Purpose: The purposeof this study was to test face and content validity, feasibility, internal consistency and test retest reliability of Arabic-language version of CNFDS that measures the disability level in chronic neck pain. Methods: Two expert panels (each consists of ten experts) and 74 patients with chronic neck pain participated in this study, 135 sheets (including retest sheets) were filled out in this study. 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 analysisure the disability level in chronic neck pain patients UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -