Validity and reliability of arabic version of cervical spine bournemouth questionnaire for neck pain / Hadeer Ali Morsi Awad ; Supervised Ahmed Ebrahim Elerian , Mohamed Ibrahim Abdelhay , Amir Hamza Salama

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

Background: Neck pain is the sensation of discomfort in the neck area, with an annual prevalence ranging from 30 to 50% in the adult population Objective: To test the validity and reliability of arabic-language version of cervical spine Bournemouth questionnaire for neck pain patients. Method: seventy patients with neck pain were recruited and 115 sheets (test and retest sheets) were filled out and three expert panels (each consists of ten experts) participated 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. Results:The study showed that scale index of clarity equals 100%, scale-level clarity index universal agreement equals 100%, scale index of content validity equals100%, scale-level content validity index universal agreement equals 100%, the scale items were filled by 96.52% % in all sheets, the scale needed less than or equal five minutes to answer in about 97.4% all sheets, Cronbach's alpha equals 0.891 and all Pearson correlations between test and retest results were statistically significant. Conclusion: Arabic-language version of Bournemouth questionnaire has face and content validity, feasibility and internal consistency and test retest reliability enough to measure cervical pain in neck patients

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