“Validación en español del cuestionario perfil médico del paciente ortopédico (medical history profile of orthopaedic patients questionnaire)”

Abstract

Adapting a validated questionnaire, for application in another country, with a different language, constitutes an ethical responsibility of all professionals who use tests, questionnaires, tests, etc. For what has been proposed, validate the questionnaire (Medical History Profile of Orthopedic Patients) to Spanish, for the timely detection of risk factors that may influence the physiotherapeutic intervention, and facilitate the intervention process. For this, he adapted the original questionnaire through 4 translations, two initials from English to Spanish, by two translators, one with knowledge and the other, and then a synthesis with a mediator that generated a preliminary questionnaire to which he translated it twice more by two translators from Spanish to English, then the pre-final questionnaire was validated by a committee of experts, and the reliability of the questionnaire was measured by the Test-Retest method, in two groups of participants of 20 people each, who were administered Twice the questionnaire in a 5 day interval. A reliable, valid, and reliable Spanish questionnaire could be obtained, which has the same purpose as the original questionnaire.