Reliability and validity of the Finnish version of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Shoulder Assessment Form, patient self-report section

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Reliability and validity of the Finnish version of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Shoulder Assessment Form, patient self-report section

Jari Ylinen Kirsi Piitulainen Hannu Kautiainen Hannu Kautiainen Arja Häkkinen Juha Paloneva

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Male Psychometrics Sports medicine medicine.medical_treatment Shoulder pain Severity of Illness Index RESPONSIVENESS Disability Evaluation Risk Factors Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Finland Pain Measurement Aged 80 and over Rehabilitation mittaus Middle Aged Reliability medicine.anatomical_structure Convergent validity Female ARTHRITIS Research Article Adult medicine.medical_specialty Shoulder animal structures The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Assessment Form (ASES)Adolescent Psychometrics DISORDERS shoulder pain education Validity Young Adult Physical medicine and rehabilitation Rheumatology Predictive Value of Tests medicine Criterion validity Humans Rotator cuff ASES Aged Cultural Characteristics reliability business.industry Construct validity Reproducibility of Results Translating 3126 Surgery anesthesiology intensive care radiology The American Shoulde and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Assessment Form (ASES)3121 General medicine internal medicine and other clinical medicine validiteetti Orthopedic surgery CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION Physical therapy Self Report TRANSLATION business

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Background The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Shoulder Assessment Form (ASES) is one of the most widely used shoulder outcome tools in clinical work and in scientific studies. However, it has not been validated in the Finnish language. The aims of this study were to cross-culturally adapt the ASES to the Finnish language and to study the psychometric properties of the self-report section of the ASES. Methods A total of 105 patients with shoulder symptoms answered the questionnaires of the ASES, a single disability question, the Simple Shoulder Test (SST), and the Short-Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36). The reliability of the ASES questionnaire was studied using a test-retest procedure at 2-week intervals. Psychometric assessment was performed by testing the construct validity, internal consistency, the criterion validity, and the convergent validity of the ASES. Results The reproducibility and internal consistency of the ASES were 0.83 (95% CI 0.70 to 0.90) and 0.88 (95% Cl 0.84 to 0.91). There were no significant differences between the diagnostic groups in the pain scores from the ASES, and the function score was significantly higher in the instability group compared to the other groups. The convergent validity of the ASES correlated with the SST, r = 0.73 (p < 0.001); the single disability question, r = -0.74 (p < 0.001); and the Physical Component Score of the SF-36, r = 0.57 (p < 0.001). Conclusions The Finnish version of the ASES proved to be a reliable and valid tool for assessing shoulder disabilities in patients with different shoulder diagnoses, including rotator cuff disease, instability, and osteoarthritis. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2474-15-272) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2014-08-01

http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201408232620