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AUTHOR
Jussi Repo
DEPS-testin luotettavuus ja pätevyys aikuisilla selkäpotilailla
The Depression Scale (DEPS) is a patient-reported outcome instrument developed to recognize depressive symptoms. This study measured the psychometric properties of the DEPS among patients with degenerative spinal disease. Altogether 637 patients were included in the analysis. Main research question was whether the DEPS would meet pertinent psychometric criteria for reliability and validity. The results of analyses supported the DEPS instrument as a reliable and valid test to measure depressive symptoms among adult patients with spinal disease fulfilling the psychometric criteria. nonPeerReviewed
Scoliosis Research Society (SRS-30) kyselykaavakkeen pätevyys selkä- ja alaraajakipuisilla aikuispotilailla
Scoliosis Research Society questionnaire version 30 (SRS-30) has originally been developed to measure disability and health related quality of life in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis but it has proven valid also in adults with degenerative spinal disease. Degenerative spine disease has many phases and manifestations including disc degeneration, spondylarthrosis, spondylolistheses and compromise to neural tissue. The aim of this study was to test whether the SRS-30 questionnaire is valid in adults with different sources of pain: local back pain, radicular pain or their combination. Structural analysis of the SRS-30 and comparison with RAND-36 and ODI was performed. The deformit…