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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Reliability of the Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI) to the Spanish Adolescent Population
Manuel Monfort-pañegoMatias NollVicente Miñana-signesJoan Morantsubject
Cross-Cultural ComparisonAdolescentPsychometricsHealth Toxicology and MutagenesisassessmentPostureaccountinglcsh:MedicineArticleCorrelation03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineSurveys and QuestionnairesBack painmedicineCross-culturalHumans030212 general & internal medicineadolescentsAdaptation (computer science)Childeducation_studiesReliability (statistics)questionnairelcsh:RPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthReproducibility of Resultsback healthTest (assessment)Adolescent populationBack Painsecondary schoolmedicine.symptomPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryKappaBrazilClinical psychologycross-cultural adaptationdescription
The prevalence of back pain (BP) among children and adolescents has increased over recent years. Some authors advocate promoting back-health education in the school setting. It is therefore important to adopt a uniform suite of assessment instruments to measure the various constructs. The present study aimed to perform a cultural adaptation of a validated measurement instrument (BackPEI), beginning with a translation and cultural adaptation phase, followed by a second phase to test reliability using a test-retest design. The translation and cross-cultural adaptation were performed based on the guidelines. Reliability was tested by applying the questionnaire to 224 secondary school students, at two different times with a 7-day interval between the tests. In general, the Spanish version presented adequate agreement for questions 1&ndash
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-20 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |