Cross-cultural adaptation of the 12-item Örebro musculoskeletal screening questionnaire to Japanese (ÖMSQ-12-J), reliability and clinicians' impressions for practicality.
Hiroshi Takasaki, Charles Philip Gabel
PMID 28878473WHAT IT FOUND
Japanese adults with musculoskeletal problems answered the 12-item Örebro screening twice and mostly gave similar answers. 14 clinicians mostly found it useful, but it has not been shown to predict recovery.
Key findings
01When the same patients completed the Japanese screening twice, each item and the total score were moderately to strongly consistent.
02Most clinicians thought the questionnaire was practical and useful, but some said it slowed evaluation or was not useful.
03No patient in the reliability sample had symptoms for less than one week.
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What it does not show
The study did not follow patients over time, so it cannot show whether the questionnaire predicts poor recovery, work disability or other outcomes. The reliability sample was a convenience sample of 50 outpatients. No patient had symptoms for less than one week, and 35 patients had symptoms for more than three months, so the results may not apply to acute presentations. Only 14 clinicians were surveyed, and all were credentialed in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy, so their views may not reflect general practice. The two questionnaire sessions were a mean of 2.6 days apart, so stability over longer periods was not tested.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use the ÖMSQ-12-J as an established predictor of poor recovery or work disability. The study tested translation, short-term stability and clinician impressions, not whether scores predict outcomes.