Validation of the Chinese Manchester foot pain and disability index (C-MFPDI) among patients with inflammatory arthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Manchester Foot Pain and Disability Index (MFPDI) is a patient-reported outcome tool used to measure foot pain and foot-related disability. The English version of the MFPDI has been successfully translated into other European languages, but there was no Chinese version to use in Chinese-speaking communities. The cross-sectional correlational study aimed to translate the MFPDI from English into simplified Chinese (C-MFPDI) and to test its psychometric properties among people with inflammatory arthritis in Singapore.

Methods

The MFPDI was translated from English into Chinese using a forward-backward translation framework and was administered to 100 Chinese-speaking people with inflammatory arthritis. From the original 100 participants, 30 participants re-evaluat

SUBMITTER: Erh BXY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343242 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature