Traditional Chinese-Hong Kong version of Forgotten Joint Score-12 (FJS-12) for patients with osteoarthritis of the knee underwent joint replacement surgery: cross-cultural and sub-cultural adaptation, and validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A patient-reported outcome (PRO) tool which reflects the outcomes of patients underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are important to be "ceiling effect free" which commonly used PRO tools face. Forgotten joint score-12 (FJS-12) has been proved to reduce or even free from ceiling effect. FJS-12 has been translated to different languages. The objectives of this study are to validate FJS-12 in Traditional Chinese-Hong Kong language and look for the goodness of FJS-12 still exist in this language adapted FJS-12 version.

Methods

FJS-12 was administered to 75 patients whose majority was obese underwent TKA between September 2019 and March 2020. Patients completed 3 sets of questionnaires (FJS-12, Oxford Knee Score (OKS), and Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)) twice, 2 weeks

SUBMITTER: Ho KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8902851 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature