Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Reliability of the Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI) to the Spanish Adolescent Population

Vicente Miñana-Signes, Manuel Monfort-Pañego, Joan Morant and Matias Noll
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Vicente Miñana-Signes: Body Languages Didactics Department, Academic Unit of Physical Education, Teacher Training Faculty, University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Manuel Monfort-Pañego: Body Languages Didactics Department, Academic Unit of Physical Education, Teacher Training Faculty, University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Joan Morant: Body Languages Didactics Department, Academic Unit of Physical Education, Teacher Training Faculty, University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Matias Noll: Physical Education Department, Instituto Federal Goiano, Rialma, Goias 76310-000, Brazil

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: The prevalence of back pain (BP) among children and adolescents has increased over recent years. Some authors advocate promoting back-health education in the school setting. It is therefore important to adopt a uniform suite of assessment instruments to measure the various constructs. The present study aimed to perform a cultural adaptation of a validated measurement instrument (BackPEI), beginning with a translation and cultural adaptation phase, followed by a second phase to test reliability using a test-retest design. The translation and cross-cultural adaptation were performed based on the guidelines. Reliability was tested by applying the questionnaire to 224 secondary school students, at two different times with a 7-day interval between the tests. In general, the Spanish version presented adequate agreement for questions 1–20, with only question 9 achieving a low Kappa range of 0.312 (−0.152–0.189). The question about pain intensity did not show differences between the test means (4.72 ± 2.33) and re-test (4.58 ± 2.37) ( p = 0.333), and the responses for these two tests obtained a high correlation (ICC = 0.951 (0.928–0.966); p = 0.0001). Psychometric testing indicated that the Spanish version of the BackPEI is well-adapted and reliable, based on the test–retest design, providing similar results to the original Brazilian version.

Keywords: questionnaire; back health; assessment; cross-cultural adaptation; adolescents; secondary school (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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