Italian Translation of the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. Some of the most used Questionnaires, unfortunately, are not available in Italian.

Detailed Description
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Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. Some of the most used Questionnaires, unfortunately, are not available in Italian. This poses a problem when evaluating Italian speaking patients. Our aim is to develop a culturally adapted Italian version of the Michigan Hand Questionnaire. There is no risk involved for the patients, as the task of the recruited patients is to answer a survey (online and in clinics).

Official Title
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Italian Translation and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire

Conditions
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Hand Fracture, Hand Osteoarthritis, Hand Injury Wrist, Hand Sprain, Wrist Injuries, Wrist Fracture, Wrist Arthritis

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Questionaire Michigan


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: age > 18 years native Italian speakers wrist/hand pathology trauma (fractures, tendon injuries, etc.) chronic pathology, the pathology has been present for at least 1 month (tenosynovitis, chronic arthrosis pain, rheumatic hand or wrist disorders) in case of hand/wrist surgery: at least 4 weeks have elapsed since surgery to avoid that the patient could not perform certain actions evaluated by the scale, for example lifting a pan or shopping bags, due to normal post-operative precautions. full possession of mental capacity Exclusion Criteria: age < 18 years non-native Italian speakers of Italian, thus also excluding second generation Swiss Italians (secundo) mental incapacity upper limb in cast/locked by splint (criterion in Chung's article 98) at the time of the evaluation

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Other: Questionaire Michigan|Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. The Michigan Hand Questionnaire is one of the most important.|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Validity | Validity will be assessed as structural validity, i.e., the degree to which the scores of the Health-Related Patient Reported Outcome (HR-PRO) are an adequate reflection of the dimensionality of the construct to be measured (Mokkink et al., 2010). | 3 months | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | Reliability will be assessed as internal consistency (i.e., the degree of the interrelatedness among the items [Mokkink et al., 2010]), test-retest reliability (i.e., the proportion of the total variance in the measurements which is due to 'true' differences between patients [Mokkink et al., 2010]), and measurement error (i.e., the systematic and random error of a patient's score that is not attributed to true changes in the construct to be measured [Mokkink et al., 2010]). | 3 months |