Validity and reliability of Arabic version of cervical spine Bournemouth questionnaire for neck pain

Author: 
*Hadeer A. Morsi, Ahmed E. Elerian, Mohamed I. Abdelhay and Amir H.Y. Salama

Background: Neck pain is among the most common chronic pain problems, with a reported prevalence of 22–30%. Objective: To test the validity and reliability of arabic-language version of cervical spine Bournemouth questionnaire for neck pain patient. Method: Seventy patients with neck pain were recruited and 115 sheets (test and retest sheets) were filled out and three expert panels (each consists of ten experts) participated in this study, forward translation, development of preliminary initially translated version, backward translation, development of the pre-final version and testing of pre-final version using experts then testing of the final version on patients was done. Clarity index, expert proportion of clearance, index of content validity, expert proportion of relevance, descriptive statistics, missed item index, Cronbach’s alpha and Pearson correlation coefficient were used for statistical analysis. Results: The study showed that scale index of clarity equals 100%, scale-level clarity index universal agreement equals 100%, scale index of content validity equals 100%, scale-level content validity index universal agreement equals 100%, the scale items were filled by 96.52% % in all sheets, the scale needed less than or equal five minutes to answer in about 97.4% all sheets, Cronbach's alpha equals 0.891 and all Pearson correlations between test and retest results were statistically significant. Conclusion: Arabic-language version of Bournemouth questionnaire is valid and reliable enough to measure cervical pain in neck patient.

Paper No: 
2119