The Attitudes to Back Pain Scale in musculoskeletal practitioners (ABS-mp): The development and testing of a new questionnaire
Authors: Pincus, T., Vogel, S., Santos, R., Breen, A., Foster, N. and Underwood, M.
Journal: Clinical Journal of Pain
Volume: 22
Issue: 4
Pages: 378-386
ISSN: 0749-8047
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000178223.85636.49
Abstract:OBJECTIVES: Little is known about practitioners' beliefs and attitudes to the treatment of low back pain, and whether these influence their clinical decisions, intervention strategies, and patient-centered outcomes. This study aimed to develop, test, and explore the underlying dimensions of a new questionnaire, the Attitudes to Back Pain Scale (ABS), in a specific group of clinicians, practitioners who specialize in musculoskeletal therapy. METHODS: Items for the draft questionnaire were derived from interviews with practitioners (chiropractors, osteopaths, and physiotherapists). The draft questionnaire (52 items) sought to assess practitioners' attitudes concerning role and self-image plus their beliefs about treatment goals and prognosis of low back pain. The questionnaire was sent to a random selection of 300 practitioners from each professional group, and 546 (61%) responded. Split-sample analyses were performed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. RESULTS: Separate exploratory analyses were done for attitudes concerned with personal interaction (34 items) and attitudes about treatment orientation (18 items), producing six domains: limitations on sessions, psychologic, connection to health care system, confidence and concern, reactivation, and biomedical. Confirmatory analyses indicated that the model tested presented a good fit. Validity interviews revealed high agreement of categorization and low levels of difficulty in categorizing the items. CONCLUSIONS: The internal structure of the new questionnaire not only shows excellent psychometric properties and good face validity, but also has the added advantage of being developed with a specific clinical context in mind. Additional evaluation is required to fully describe the psychometric integrity of this instrument. Copyright © 2006 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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The attitudes to back pain scale in musculoskeletal practitioners (ABS-mp): the development and testing of a new questionnaire.
Authors: Pincus, T., Vogel, S., Santos, R., Breen, A., Foster, N. and Underwood, M.
Journal: Clin J Pain
Volume: 22
Issue: 4
Pages: 378-386
ISSN: 0749-8047
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000178223.85636.49
Abstract:OBJECTIVES: Little is known about practitioners' beliefs and attitudes to the treatment of low back pain, and whether these influence their clinical decisions, intervention strategies, and patient-centered outcomes. This study aimed to develop, test, and explore the underlying dimensions of a new questionnaire, the Attitudes to Back Pain Scale (ABS), in a specific group of clinicians, practitioners who specialize in musculoskeletal therapy. METHODS: Items for the draft questionnaire were derived from interviews with practitioners (chiropractors, osteopaths, and physiotherapists). The draft questionnaire (52 items) sought to assess practitioners' attitudes concerning role and self-image plus their beliefs about treatment goals and prognosis of low back pain. The questionnaire was sent to a random selection of 300 practitioners from each professional group, and 546 (61%) responded. Split-sample analyses were performed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. RESULTS: Separate exploratory analyses were done for attitudes concerned with personal interaction (34 items) and attitudes about treatment orientation (18 items), producing six domains: limitations on sessions, psychologic, connection to health care system, confidence and concern, reactivation, and biomedical. Confirmatory analyses indicated that the model tested presented a good fit. Validity interviews revealed high agreement of categorization and low levels of difficulty in categorizing the items. CONCLUSIONS: The internal structure of the new questionnaire not only shows excellent psychometric properties and good face validity, but also has the added advantage of being developed with a specific clinical context in mind. Additional evaluation is required to fully describe the psychometric integrity of this instrument.
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The attitudes to back pain scale in musculoskeletal practitioners (ABS-mp) - The development and testing of a new questionnaire
Authors: Pincus, T., Vogel, S., Santos, R., Breen, A., Foster, N. and Underwood, M.
Journal: CLINICAL JOURNAL OF PAIN
Volume: 22
Issue: 4
Pages: 378-386
eISSN: 1536-5409
ISSN: 0749-8047
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000178223.85636.49
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The attitudes to back pain scale in musculoskeletal practitioners (abs – mp); the development and testing of a new questionnaire
Authors: Pincus, T., Vogel, S., Santos, R., Breen, A.C., Foster, N.E.L. and Underwood, M.
Journal: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume
Volume: 87-B
Pages: 207
ISSN: 0301-620X
Abstract:Purpose and background: Practitioners’ beliefs about their professional role, their patients and the nature of back pain can impact on clinical decisions. These attitudes are likely to affect their choice to implement guidelines, whether they engage with their patients’ psychological problems, and their decisions about referral. We aimed to develop, test and explore the underlying dimensions of a new questionnaire, ‘The Attitudes to Back Pain Scale’ (ABS), in a specific group of clinicians, practitioners who specialise in musculoskeletal therapy: chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists (COPs).
Methods and Results: We used a mixed methods study design. Using transcripts of interviews with 42 practitioners, we constructed 54 attitudinal statements, grouped theoretically into six sub-headings. We tested the validity of our categorization on 14 practitioners, who carried out a sorting task, including a rating of difficulty in cat-egorising each item. We sent the draft questionnaires to a large random sample of practitioners (300 COPs). 546 questionnaires were returned (61%). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed on split samples of the dataset. Separate exploratory analyses were done for attitudes concerned with personal interaction (34 items) and attitudes about treatment orientation (18 items), producing six domains ‘Limitations on sessions’, ‘Psychological’, ‘System and Void’, ‘Clinical Limitations’, ‘Reactivation’, and ‘Biomedical’. Confirmatory analyses indicated that the model tested presented a good fit. Validity interviews revealed high agreement of categorisation and low levels of difficulty in categorising the items.
Conclusions: A new questionnaire for measuring clinicians’ attitudes towards back pain has been developed. Further work is required to assess the impact of these factors on practitioners’ behaviour and patient outcomes
http://proceedings.jbjs.org.uk/cgi/content/abstract/87-B/SUPP_II/207-c
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The attitudes to back pain scale in musculoskeletal practitioners (ABS-mp): the development and testing of a new questionnaire.
Authors: Pincus, T., Vogel, S., Santos, R., Breen, A., Foster, N. and Underwood, M.
Journal: The Clinical journal of pain
Volume: 22
Issue: 4
Pages: 378-386
eISSN: 1536-5409
ISSN: 0749-8047
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000178223.85636.49
Abstract:Objectives
Little is known about practitioners' beliefs and attitudes to the treatment of low back pain, and whether these influence their clinical decisions, intervention strategies, and patient-centered outcomes. This study aimed to develop, test, and explore the underlying dimensions of a new questionnaire, the Attitudes to Back Pain Scale (ABS), in a specific group of clinicians, practitioners who specialize in musculoskeletal therapy.Methods
Items for the draft questionnaire were derived from interviews with practitioners (chiropractors, osteopaths, and physiotherapists). The draft questionnaire (52 items) sought to assess practitioners' attitudes concerning role and self-image plus their beliefs about treatment goals and prognosis of low back pain. The questionnaire was sent to a random selection of 300 practitioners from each professional group, and 546 (61%) responded. Split-sample analyses were performed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.Results
Separate exploratory analyses were done for attitudes concerned with personal interaction (34 items) and attitudes about treatment orientation (18 items), producing six domains: limitations on sessions, psychologic, connection to health care system, confidence and concern, reactivation, and biomedical. Confirmatory analyses indicated that the model tested presented a good fit. Validity interviews revealed high agreement of categorization and low levels of difficulty in categorizing the items.Conclusions
The internal structure of the new questionnaire not only shows excellent psychometric properties and good face validity, but also has the added advantage of being developed with a specific clinical context in mind. Additional evaluation is required to fully describe the psychometric integrity of this instrument.Source: Europe PubMed Central