Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Test-Retest Reliability of the Spanish ROWAN Foot Pain Assessment Questionnaire (ROFPAQ-S)

摘要

Background: The ROWAN Foot Pain Assessment Questionnaire (ROFPAQ) may beconsidered as a self-reported health questionnaire with 45 items to measure foot healthproblems such as foot pain. To date, the ROFPAQ has only been validated into anEnglish-language version.Objectives: Therefore this study aim was to perform the cross-cultural adaptationand test-retest reliability of the Spanish ROFPAQ version (ROFPAQ-S).Study Design: A cross-sectional descriptive study.Settings: Podiatry and physiotherapy clinical centers.Methods: The recommended forward/backward translation protocol was applied forthe procedure of translation and cross-cultural adaptation from United Kingdom toSpain.Results: An adequate internal consistency (Cronbach α) was shown for the 3 domainsabout cognitive (α = 0.763-0.792), affective (α = 0.751-0.801), and sensory (α = 0.741-0.733) subscales, as well as for the total score (α = 0.822-0.813). Good test-retestreliability by intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC [95% confidence interval]) wasshown for the total score (ICC = 0.909 [0.850-0.944]), and each domain such ascognitive (ICC = 0.785 [0.648- 0.869]), affective (ICC = 0.995 [0.991-0.997]), andsensory (ICC = 0.662 [0.447-0.794]) subscales. The Spearman correlations (rs) wereadequate for the cognitive (rs = 0.81-0.83), affective (rs = 0.73-0.72), and sensory (rs= 0.67-0.63) subscales.Limitations: The original ROFPAQ was developed from a podiatry department of thehealth care national service.Conclusions: The ROFPAQ-S was shown as a valid and reliable tool with an acceptableuse in the Spanish population.