ArticleJournal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation2021
Are the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire and Oswestry Disability Index interchangeable in patients after lumbar spinal fusion?
Article in Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07458776 (Effects of Muscle Energy Technique and Pilates Exercises on Pain and Physical Function in Patients With Nonspecific Low Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Effects of Muscle Energy Technique and Pilates Exercises on Pain and Physical Function in Patients With Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Home Physical Exercise Interventions in Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain: Systematic Review and Multivariate Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Evaluation and Rehabilitation after Adult Lumbar Spine Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Effects of Lifestyle Interventions on the Improvement of Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- How Well Do Seven Self-Report Measures Represent Underlying Back Pain Impact?Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2024Article
- Level of Disability after Total Hip Replacement in Patients with SomeJournal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Construct validity and reliability of the 2-Minute Step Test (2MST) in individuals with low back pain.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Does the implementation of clinical practice guidelines for low back and neck pain by physical therapists improve patient outcomes? A systematic review.Implementation science communications · 2022Review
- Non-specific spondylodiscitis: a new perspective for surgical treatment.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundLow back pain is a common health problem for which there are several treatment options. For optimizing clinical decision making, evaluation of treatments and research purposes it is important that health care professionals are able to evaluate the functional status of patients. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are widely accepted and recommended. The Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) and the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) are the two mainly used condition-specific patient reported outcomes. Concerns regarding the content and structural validity and also the different scoring systems of these outcome measures makes comparison of treatment results difficult.
objectiveAim of this study was to determine if the RMDQ and ODI could be used exchangeable by assessing the correlation and comparing different measurement properties between the questionnaires.
methodsClinical data from patients who participated in a multicenter RCT with 2 year follow-up after lumbar spinal fusion were used. Outcome measures were the RMDQ, ODI, Short Form 36 - Health Survey (SF-36), leg pain and back pain measured on a 0-100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS). Cronbach's alpha coefficients, Spearman correlation coefficients, multiple regression analysis and Bland-Altman plots were calculated.
resultsthree hundred and seventy-six completed questionnaires filled out by 87 patients were used. The ODI and RMDQ had both a good level of internal consistency. There was a very strong correlation between the RMDQ and the ODI (r= 0.87; p< 0.001), and between the VAS and both the ODI and RMDQ. However, the Bland-Altman plot indicated bad agreement between the ODI and RMDQ.
conclusionsThe RMDQ and ODI cannot be used interchangeably, nor is there a possibility of converting the score from one questionnaire to the other. However, leg pain and back pain seemed to be predictors for both the ODI and the RMDQ.
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