IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i19p7284-d424104.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the 36-Item WHODAS 2.0 in Patients with Low Back Pain

Author

Listed:
  • Agnieszka Ćwirlej-Sozańska

    (Institute of Health Sciences, College of Medical Sciences of the University of Rzeszow, University of Rzeszow, Rejtana16C, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland)

  • Agnieszka Bejer

    (Institute of Health Sciences, College of Medical Sciences of the University of Rzeszow, University of Rzeszow, Rejtana16C, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland)

  • Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej

    (Institute of Health Sciences, College of Medical Sciences of the University of Rzeszow, University of Rzeszow, Rejtana16C, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland)

  • Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska

    (Faculty of Medicine, Lazarski University, Świeradowska Street 43, 02-662 Warsaw, Poland)

  • Alessandro de Sire

    (Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, Department of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont, Viale Piazza D’Armi 1, 28100 Novara, Italy
    Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Center for Geriatric Medicine (CEMI), Institute of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, L.go F.Vito 8, 00168 Rome, Italy)

  • Renata Spalek

    (Department of Geriatrics, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Center for Geriatric Medicine (CEMI), Institute of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, L.go F.Vito 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
    Rehabilitation Unit, ‘Mons. L. Novarese’ Hospital, Str. Sotto Cerca, 13040 Vercelli, Italy)

  • Bernard Sozański

    (Institute of Health Sciences, College of Medical Sciences of the University of Rzeszow, University of Rzeszow, Rejtana16C, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland)

Abstract

The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be a useful tool for assessing the functioning and disability of the general population as well as the effectiveness of the applied interventions. Until this study, no data regarding the validity of the 36-item WHODAS 2.0 in chronic low back pain (LBP) in Poland have been explored. This study was conducted on 92 patients suffering from chronic LBP admitted to the rehabilitation ward. The Polish version of the 36-item WHODAS 2.0, the Sf-36 Health Survey (SF-36), the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) questionnaires were applied to assess patients. The scale score reliability of the entire tool for the study population was very high. The Cronbach’s alpha test result for the entire scale was 0.92. For the overall result of the WHODAS 2.0, the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC 1,2 ) was 0.928, which confirmed that the scale was consistent over time. The total result and the vast majority of domains of the 36-item WHODAS 2.0 correlated negatively with domains of the SF-36 questionnaire; thus, a higher WHODAS 2.0 score was associated with a lower score on the SF-36 questionnaire. We found that the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the total WHODAS 2.0 score in patients after rehabilitation for LBP was 4.87. Overall, the results indicated that the Polish version of the 36-item WHODAS is suitable for assessing health and disability status in patients with LBP.

Suggested Citation

  • Agnieszka Ćwirlej-Sozańska & Agnieszka Bejer & Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej & Anna Wilmowska-Pietruszyńska & Alessandro de Sire & Renata Spalek & Bernard Sozański, 2020. "Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the 36-Item WHODAS 2.0 in Patients with Low Back Pain," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(19), pages 1-17, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:19:p:7284-:d:424104
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/19/7284/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/19/7284/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:19:p:7284-:d:424104. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.