New Modified English and Hindi Oswestry Disability Index in Low Back Pain Patients Treated Conservatively in Indian Population.
- Author:
NISHANT
1
;
Harvinder Singh CHHABRA
;
Kulwant Singh KAPOOR
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords: Back pain; Oswestry disability index; Outcome measures; Validity; Reliability; Indian population
- MeSH: Back Pain; Cohort Studies; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Low Back Pain*; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Prospective Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Asian Spine Journal 2014;8(5):632-638
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study along with questionnaire. PURPOSE: To measure the correlation of the visual analogue score (VAS), with (Oswestry disability Index [ODI], version 2.1a) in English, and modified ODI (English and Hindi version). To validate translated version of the modified ODI in English version to Hindi. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE: Conflicting evidence in literature regarding the ability for existing ODI score to accurately measure the pain associated disability. METHODS: One hundred and three patients conservatively treated for low back pain were enrolled in the study. The Pearson correlation coefficient for VAS and ODI along with the Cronbach alpha and test-retest reliability for Hindi version using the intraclass correlation coefficient was recorded. The new proposed translated Hindi version of ODI was carried out with established guidelines. RESULTS: The mean age in English and Hindi version of ODI was 53.5 years and 58.5 years, respectively. The gender ration was 21:24 in the English version and 35:23 in the Hindi version. The mean follow-up in English and Hindi version of ODI was 3.4 months and 50.27 months, respectively. The Cronbach coefficient alpha=0.7541 for English ODI and 0.9913 for Hindi ODI was recorded for the both modified versions. CONCLUSIONS: The new modified ODI is time saving and accurate, and it avoids the need to measure other scores and has stronger correlation with VAS score compared to the previous scores. We recommend this version for both English and Hindi speaking population as an assessment tool to measure the disability related to pain.
