VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE VIETNAMESE VERSION OF THE PRACTICAL AWARENESS PHYSICAL THERAPY QUESTIONNAIRE ON MANAGING THORACIC SPINAL PAIN

Lam Bình Nguyễn , Nguyên Trung Võ

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Backgrounds: Thoracic spine pain is pain that occurs in the thoracic spine area. The physical therapist's awareness is important and directly affects the results of the thoracic spine pain treatment program.. Vietnamese version of the practical awareness questionnaire on thoracic spine pain management to facilitate information collection and improve physical therapy treatment programs. Objectives: The study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of Vietnamese version of practical awareness questionnaire on handling thoracic spine pain by physical therapists. Methods: The questionnaire was translated forward, back translated and synthesized. The summary is sent to experts for evaluation and editing.Then, research on 30 subjects (13 men and 17 women) who are members of the Vietnam Physical Therapy Association evaluated the validity and reliability. Results: Research shows that the results of CVI assessment for content validity of the I-CVI questionnaire is 0.97, S-CVI/Avg is 0.97, S-CVI/UA is 0.917. Cronbatch's Alpha index is 0.863712. 100% of research participants rated the questionnaire as appropriate and very suitable for application in Vietnam. Conclusions: This study givesfound that the questionnaire ensures good content validity and reliability and can be used to survey physical therapy technicians in Vietnam.

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