Clinical trial NCT04898959: Psychometric Evaluation of the Arabic Activity-specific Balance Confidence (A-ABC) and the Arabic Prosthetic Mobility Questionnaire (PMQ)
Official title: Psychometric Evaluation of the Arabic Activity-specific Balance Confidence (A-ABC) and the Arabic Prosthetic Mobility Questionnaire (PMQ) in Saudi Lower Amputees
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Filling Out Questionnaires
Keywords: Arabic Activity-specific Balance Confidence
Arabic Prosthetic Mobility Questionnaire
Psychometric
Lead sponsor: Marmara University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-05-24
Enrollment: 90
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Unilateral lower limb amputees (above ankle dezarticulation level)

Brief summary: The primary aim of this study is to perform perform a psychometric analysis of Arabic Activity-specific Balance Confidence (A-ABC) and the Arabic Prosthetic Mobility Questionnaire (A-PMQ) through a modern psychometric approach involving Rasch analysis (RA) to enable its use among Arabic speaking population and to enhance confidence in its use patients with lower limb amputation.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* current users of lower limb prosthesis of minum 6 month,
* to be able to fully understand and appropriately complete the questionnaire,
* to be unilater amputee.

Exclusion Criteria:

* inability to understand and complete the questionnair (e.g. cognitive or language impairment; not native-Arabic speaker),
* less the 6 month of using the prosthesis,
* bilateral and partial lower limb amputees

Primary outcomes:
measure: Rasch analysis
timeFrame: Change from baseline answers of questions following 3 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Marmara University
Study officials:
References:
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citation: Burger H, Giordano A, Bavec A, Franchignoni F. The Prosthetic Mobility Questionnaire, a tool for assessing mobility in people with lower-limb amputation: validation of PMQ 2.0 in Slovenia. Int J Rehabil Res. 2019 Sep;42(3):263-269. doi: 10.1097/MRR.0000000000000354.