Investigation of four self-report instruments (FABT, TSK-HC, Back-PAQ, HC-PAIRS) to measure healthcare practitioners' attitudes and beliefs toward low back pain: Reliability, convergent validity and survey of New Zealand osteopaths and manipulative physiotherapists
Manual Therapy Aug 31, 2017
Moran RW, et al. – Goals of this study were to examine internal consistency, test–retest reliability and convergent validity of the Fear Avoidance Beliefs Tool (FABT), the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia for Health Care Providers (TSK–HC), the Back Pain Attitudes Questionnaire (Back–PAQ), and the Health Care Pain and Impairment Relationship Scale (HC–PAIRS), also to investigate beliefs of New Zealand osteopaths and physiotherapists regarding low back pain. For the FABT, TSK–HC, and Back–PAQ, the authors found excellent internal consistency, test–retest reliability, and good convergent validity. Previously reported internal consistency, test–retest and convergent validity of the HC–PAIRS were confirmed, and test–retest reliability was excellent. They found significant scoring differences on each instrument between professions, and while both groups showed fear avoidant beliefs, physiotherapist respondent scores demonstrated that as a group, they held fewer fear–avoidant beliefs compared to osteopath respondents.
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