Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90690-200, Brazil.
Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia 74605-050, Brazil.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 27;19(3):1398. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031398.
The Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI) was created in 2013 to assess back pain and its risk factors in school children. However, it does not assess neck pain or the habits of mobile device usage, which are aspects that are often part of school children's lives. Therefore, we aimed to update the BackPEI questionnaire to include new questions assessing aspects related to neck pain and the use of mobile devices and to test the content validity and reliability of the new questions. The updated questionnaire was named Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument for Children and Adolescents (BackPEI-CA). The content was validated by eight experts using the content validity index (CVI). To assess reliability, the BackPEI-CA questionnaire was applied at two different times in 105 school children, and Cohen's kappa (k) and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were calculated. All aspects assessed regarding content validity had a CVI higher than 0.8. The new questions presented moderate and good kappa values and excellent ICC values. The updated version of BackPEI-CA can be used as a clinic tool for assessing the presence, frequency, and intensity of back and neck pain and their risk factors.
腰背疼痛和身体姿势评估工具(BackPEI)于 2013 年创建,用于评估学童的腰背疼痛及其风险因素。然而,它并未评估颈部疼痛或移动设备使用习惯,而这些方面往往是学童生活的一部分。因此,我们旨在更新 BackPEI 问卷,纳入新的问题以评估与颈部疼痛和移动设备使用相关的方面,并测试新问题的内容效度和信度。更新后的问卷被命名为儿童和青少年腰背疼痛和身体姿势评估工具(BackPEI-CA)。内容由 8 位专家使用内容效度指数(CVI)进行验证。为了评估可靠性,105 名学童在两个不同时间应用了 BackPEI-CA 问卷,并计算了 Cohen's kappa(k)和组内相关系数(ICC)。内容效度评估的所有方面的 CVI 均高于 0.8。新问题呈现出中等和良好的 kappa 值以及优秀的 ICC 值。更新后的 BackPEI-CA 版本可用作评估腰背和颈部疼痛及其风险因素的存在、频率和强度的临床工具。