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SynthesisHealth and quality of life outcomes2021

Psychometric analysis of the questionnaires for the assessment of upper limbs available in their Italian version: a systematic review of the structural and psychometric characteristics.

Luca Barni, María Ruiz-Muñoz, Manuel Gonzalez-Sanchez, Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Jose Merchan-Baeza, Marco Freddolini

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Health and quality of life outcomes, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Methodological quality of 100 recent systematic reviews of health-related outcome measurement instruments: an overview of reviews.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Luca BarniTerme Redi, Montecatini Terme, Italy.
María Ruiz-MuñozDepartment of Nursing and Podiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Málaga, Arquitecto Francisco Peñalosa, 3, 29071, Málaga, Spain. marumu@uma.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0454-2758
Manuel Gonzalez-SanchezInstitute of Biomedicine of Málaga (IBIMA), 29010, Málaga, Spain.
Antonio I Cuesta-VargasInstitute of Biomedicine of Málaga (IBIMA), 29010, Málaga, Spain.
Jose Merchan-BaezaGrupo de investigación Methodlogy, Methods, Models and Outcomes of Health and Social Sciences (M30), Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y Bienestar, Universidad de Vic-Universidad Central de Cataluña (UVIC-UCC), Vic, Barcelona, Spain.
Marco FreddoliniIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego, 30, 16163, Genova, GE, Italy.
Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga · ESItalian Institute of Technology · ITQueensland University of Technology · AUUniversidad de Málaga · ESUniversitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThere is no systematic review that analyzes the psychometric properties of questionnaires in Italian. Previous studies have analyzed the psychometric characteristics of instruments for the measurement of pathologies of upper limbs and their joints in different languages. The aim of the present study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the questionnaires published in Italian for the evaluation of the entire upper limb or some of its specific regions and related dysfunctions. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: For the development of this systematic review, the following databases were used: PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, Dialnet, Cinahl, Embase and PEDro. The selection criteria used in this study were: studies of transcultural adaptation to Italian of questionnaires oriented to the evaluation of upper limbs or any of their structures (specifically shoulder, elbow and wrist/hand), and contribution of psychometric variables of the questionnaire in its Italian version. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: After reading the titles and applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria to the complete documents, 16 documents were selected: 3 for the upper limb, 8 for the shoulder, 1 for the elbow and 4 for the wrist and hand. The cross-sectional psychometric variables show levels between good and excellent in all the questionnaires. Longitudinal psychometric variables had not been calculated in the vast majority of the analyzed questionnaires.

conclusionsItalian versions of the questionnaires show good basic structural and psychometric characteristics for the evaluation of patients with musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb and its joints (shoulder, elbow and wrist/hand).

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LanguageQuality of LifeCross-Sectional StudiesHumansPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and QuestionnairesUpper ExtremityPathologyPsychometricsQuestionnairesReviewUpper Limb

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PMID35078509
PMCPMC8788071
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