Reliability and validity of the Finnish version of the Visual Analogue Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS-FA).

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Reliability and validity of the Finnish version of the Visual Analogue Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS-FA).

Risto P. Roine Salme Järvenpää Arja Häkkinen Outi Ilves Jan Lindahl Jussi P. Repo Erkki Tukiainen Hannu Kautiainen

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Male validity Visual Analog Scale jalkaterät leikkaushoito RESPONSIVENESS potilaslähtöisyys 0302 clinical medicine Internal consistency Health Status Indicators Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Reliability (statistics)Finland ta316 reliabiliteetti 030222 orthopedics OUTCOMES Pain Postoperative ta3141 Middle Aged medicine.anatomical_structure Female VAS-FA Foot (unit)Adult medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Visual analogue scale arviointimenetelmät CULTURAL-ADAPTATION Pain 03 medical and health sciences ankle EXTREMITY FUNCTIONAL SCALE SCORE medicine QUALITY Humans Patient Reported Outcome Measures Aged 030203 arthritis & rheumatology Reproducibility reliability business.industry Foot Foot and ankle surgery Reproducibility of Results Lower Extremity Functional Scale INSTRUMENTS Translating 3126 Surgery anesthesiology intensive care radiology nilkat hoitotulokset foot validiteetti Physical therapy Ankle Ankle business

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Background: There have previously been no validated foot and ankle-specific patient-reported outcome measures in Finnish. Methods: The Visual Analogue Scale Foot and Ankle (VAS-FA) was translated and adapted into Finnish. Thereafter, 165 patients who had undergone foot and ankle surgery completed a questionnaire set on two separate occasions. Analyses included testing of floor-ceiling effect, internal consistency, reproducibility, and validity. Results: Minor linguistic differences emerged during the translation. Some structural adjustments were made. The mean (SD) total VAS-FA score was 74 (23). In the three subscales, maximum scores were noted in 2-5% of the responses, and internal consistency ranged from 0.81 to 0.94. Reproducibility was excellent (ICC, 0.97). The total VAS-FA score correlated significantly with the Lower Extremity Functional Scale (r = 0.84) and the 15D Mobility dimension (r = 0.79). The VAS-FA loaded on two factors (pain/movement and problems/limitations). Conclusions: The Finnish version of the VAS-FA has high reliability and strong validity. (C) 2017 European Foot and Ankle Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Peer reviewed

year	journal	country	edition	language
2018-12-01	Foot and ankle surgery : official journal of the European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons

10.1016/j.fas.2017.05.009 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29409192