Follow-up in persons with traumatic spinal cord injury: questionnaire reliability.

Full Abstract

AIM. The aim of this study is to show the compliance and the test-retest reliability of the questionnaire.

METHODS:
Construction of a structured questionnaire to perform a phone follow-up in 511 persons with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) 4 years after discharge from the first rehabilitative hospitalization. The questionnaire is structured in 24 items, comprising exclusion (closed questions) answers and 3 analogic scale answers, divided into 7 aspects:
clinical conditions, sentimental relationships, quality of life, autonomy, mobility, occupation, social reintegration. A pilot survey on 20 subjects with SCI, hospitalized in different periods in 2 rehabilitation centers, was performed to check the questionnaire's feasibility and reproducibility. The persons were interviewed twice by telephone, with an interval of about one month, by a psychologist. The questionnaire was completed during one single phone conversation.

RESULTS:
No missing answers were recorded. The test run for this questionnaire showed high reproducibility based on the large numbers of questions with 100% correspondence between the answers ''before'' and ''after''. For most of the other questions this factor ranged between 80% and 99%, and for 2 questions on the analogic scale between 30% and 50%.

CONCLUSIONS:
The data collected by this pilot survey show the reliability of this questionnaire for all answers, save for the quantification of subjective variables.

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Author information

Author/s: Franceschini, M (M); Di Clemente, B (B); Citterio, A (A); Pagliacci, M C (MC);

Affiliation: Functional Rehabilitation Unit, Ospedale Maggiore, and Azienda Ospedaliera de Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy. franceschini(-atsign-)ao.pr.it

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Multicenter Study

Journal: Europa medicophysica (Eura Medicophys), published in Italy. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Sep; vol 42 (issue 3) : pp 211-8

Dates: Created 2006/10/13; Completed 2007/03/15;

PMID: 17039217, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Male
Middle Aged
Pilot Projects
Psychometrics
Quality of Life
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Spinal Cord Injuries - physiopathology; rehabilitation

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