Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the VISA-A questionnaire for Chilean Spanish-speaking patients

• DOI: 10.1186/s13018-018-0882-2
• Publication Date: 2018-07-13T13:26:24Z
• Authors: Andres Keller; Pablo Wagner; Guillermo Izquierdo; Jorge Cabrolier; Nathaly Caicedo; Emilio Wagner; Nicola Maffulli
• Keywords: Orthopedic surgery; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Score validation; Achilles tendinopathy; Psychometrics; 4. Education; Reproducibility of Results; Diseases of the musculoskeletal system; Severity of Illness Index; Spanish validation; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; RC925-935; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tendinopathy; Humans; VISA-A; Achilles tendinopathy; Score validation; Spanish validation; VISA-A; Humans; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Severity of Illness Index; Surveys and Questionnaires; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Tendinopathy; RD701-811; Research Article

The purpose of this study is to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the VISA-A questionnaire for Chilean Spanish speakers with Achilles tendinopathy (AT), which has been originally developed English-speaking population. According guidelines published by Beaton et al., was translated adapted patients in six steps: initial translation, synthesis back expert committee review, test pre-final version (cohort n = 35), development VISA-A-CH. resulting tested validity on 60 patients: 20 healthy individuals (group 1), a recently diagnosed AT 2), severe that already initiated conservative treatment no clinical improvement 3). completed three times each participant: at time enrollment, after an hour, week test. All steps were successfully translation cultural adaptation VISA-A-CH final mean scores group significantly higher than those other groups. Group 3 had lowest scores. Validity showed excellent test-retest reliability (rho c 0.999; Pearson's r 1.000) within hour 0.837; 0.840). validated successfully, being comparable original version. We believe can be recommended as important tool research settings probably Latin-American speakers.