Italian Translation of the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire

University of Zurich

Overview

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. Some of the most used Questionnaires, unfortunately, are not available in Italian. This poses a problem when evaluating Italian speaking patients. Our aim is to develop a culturally adapted Italian version of the Michigan Hand Questionnaire. There is no risk involved for the patients, as the task of the recruited patients is to answer a survey (online and in clinics).

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Conditions

Hand Fracture Hand Osteoarthritis Hand Injury Wrist Hand Sprain Wrist Injuries Wrist Fracture Wrist Arthritis

Interventions

Questionaire MichiganOTHER

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. The Michigan Hand Questionnaire is one of the most important.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * age \> 18 years * native Italian speakers * wrist/hand pathology * trauma (fractures, tendon injuries, etc.) * chronic pathology, the pathology has been present for at least 1 month (tenosynovitis, chronic arthrosis pain, rheumatic hand or wrist disorders) * in case of hand/wrist surgery: at least 4 weeks have elapsed since surgery to avoid that the patient could not perform certain actions evaluated by the scale, for example lifting a pan or shopping bags, due to normal post-operative precautions. * full possession of mental capacity Exclusion Criteria: * age \< 18 years * non-native Italian speakers of Italian, thus also excluding second generation Swiss Italians ("secundo") * mental incapacity * upper limb in cast/locked by splint (criterion in Chung's article 98) at the time of the evaluation

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Validity

Validity will be assessed as structural validity, i.e., "the degree to which the scores of the Health-Related Patient Reported Outcome (HR-PRO) are an adequate reflection of the dimensionality of the construct to be measured" (Mokkink et al., 2010).

Time frame: 3 months

Secondary Outcomes

Reliability

Reliability will be assessed as internal consistency (i.e., "the degree of the interrelatedness among the items" \[Mokkink et al., 2010\]), test-retest reliability (i.e., "the proportion of the total variance in the measurements which is due to 'true' differences between patients" \[Mokkink et al., 2010\]), and measurement error (i.e., "the systematic and random error of a patient's score that is not attributed to true changes in the construct to be measured" \[Mokkink et al., 2010\]).

Time frame: 3 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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