Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy -
Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
Eur J Phys Rehabil Med. 2020 Dec;56(6):764-770. doi: 10.23736/S1973-9087.20.06209-7. Epub 2020 Jul 7.
The Victorian Institute of Sports Assessment for gluteal tendinopathy (VISA-G) questionnaire has recently been proposed as a condition-specific patient reported outcome measurement tool to assess the tendinopathy-related disability.
The aim was to evaluate the reliability of the Italian version of the VISA-G questionnaire and its construct validity and to investigate the association between tendinopathy-related disability and pain.
It consists in a cross-sectional study.
The location of the study was a university laboratory.
We evaluated patients with gluteal tendinopathy (N.=38) and healthy controls (N.=38).
Subjects were asked to fill the VISA-G questionnaire twice to evaluate its reliability. The construct validity was evaluated by comparing the VISA score with the Oswestry Disability Index score. Moreover, pain intensity, extent and location were also investigated.
The VISA-G scores showed non-significant changes in the median values and the values of intraclass correlation coefficient showed very high correlation between the first and second administration (ICC>0.90 in both populations). No significant correlations were found between VISA-G score and either pain extent (R=-0.05, P=0.76), or resting pain intensity (R=-0.13, P=0.45), or palpation pain intensity (R= 0.01, P=0.97). Conversely, a high (and significant) negative correlation was obtained between VISA-G score and Oswestry Disability Index score (R=-0.80, P<0.0001).
These results indicated that the VISA-G Italian version presents excellent test-retest reliability.
The evaluation of gluteal tendinopathy-related disability through VISA-G can be useful for the prognostic assessment and/or follow-up of tendinopathy patients in combination with the pain drawing assessment of pain extent.
维多利亚运动评估研究所臀肌腱病（VISA-G）问卷最近被提议作为一种特定于疾病的患者报告结果测量工具，用于评估与肌腱病相关的残疾。
旨在评估 VISA-G 问卷意大利语版本的可靠性及其结构有效性，并研究与肌腱病相关的残疾与疼痛之间的关系。
这是一项横断面研究。
研究地点为大学实验室。
我们评估了臀肌腱病患者（N=38）和健康对照组（N=38）。
要求受试者两次填写 VISA-G 问卷以评估其可靠性。结构有效性通过比较 VISA 评分与 Oswestry 残疾指数评分来评估。此外，还调查了疼痛强度、程度和位置。
VISA-G 评分中位数的数值变化无显著性，组内相关系数的数值显示两次测试之间高度相关（两组的 ICC 均>0.90）。VISA-G 评分与疼痛程度的范围（R=-0.05，P=0.76）、静息疼痛强度（R=-0.13，P=0.45）或触诊疼痛强度（R=0.01，P=0.97）之间无显著相关性。相反，VISA-G 评分与 Oswestry 残疾指数评分之间存在高度（且显著）负相关（R=-0.80，P<0.0001）。
这些结果表明，VISA-G 意大利语版本具有极好的测试-重测可靠性。
通过 VISA-G 评估臀肌腱病相关残疾对于结合疼痛程度图评估疼痛对肌腱病患者的预后评估和/或随访可能是有用的。
