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Evaluation of measurement properties of self-administered PROMs aimed at patients with non-specific shoulder pain and "activity limitations": a systematic review.
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- Translation, Validity, and Reliability of the Indonesian Version of the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI).Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2025Article
- Stratified care integrated with eHealth versus usual primary care physiotherapy in patients with neck and/or shoulder complaints: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
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- Nepali translation, cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties of the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI).Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2019Article
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- An evaluation of the structural validity of the shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) using the Rasch model.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018Article
- Creation of a core outcome set for clinical trials of people with shoulder pain: a study protocol.Trials · 2017Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo critically appraise and compare the measurement properties of self-administered patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) focussing on the shoulder, assessing "activity limitations." STUDY
designSystematic review. The study population had to consist of patients with shoulder pain. We excluded postoperative patients or patients with generic diseases. The methodological quality of the selected studies and the results of the measurement properties were critically appraised and rated using the COSMIN checklist.
resultsOut of a total of 3427 unique hits, 31 articles, evaluating 7 different questionnaires, were included. The SPADI is the most frequently evaluated PROM and its measurement properties seem adequate apart from a lack of information regarding its measurement error and content validity.
conclusionFor English, Norwegian and Turkish users, we recommend to use the SPADI. Dutch users could use either the SDQ or the SST. In German, we recommend the DASH. In Tamil, Slovene, Spanish and the Danish languages, the evaluated PROMs were not yet of acceptable validity. None of these PROMs showed strong positive evidence for all measurement properties. We propose to develop a new shoulder PROM focused on activity limitations, taking new knowledge and techniques into account.
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