Health questionnaire on back care knowledge and spine disease prevention for 6-10 years old children: development and psychometric evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Back school programs, that improve back care and spine disease prevention knowledge are recommended at the age of 4-14 years. There is Health Questionnaire on Back Care Knowledge in the literature for children aged 14-17 years. At other ages, there is no questionnaire examining this knowledge. We aimed to develop a Health Questionnaire on Back Care and Spine Disease Prevention Knowledge for 6-10 years old children and validate its psychometric properties (internal consistency, test-retest reliability, agreement, convergent validity, discriminant validity) in 6-10 years old children, who attended back school program or not.

Methods

463 children took part in the research (6-10 years old). The development was performed according to the Delphi method. The final versio

SUBMITTER: Szilagyi B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8461832 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature