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To measure the effect of spine deformity on mood, acceptance, and interactions with environment, and as a result, the effect of experienced stress.
8
2 minutes
Child
6 - 12
yearsAdolescent
13 - 17
yearsAdult
18 - 64
yearsInitially reviewed by University of Illinois at Chicago Master of Science in Occupational Therapy students Kate Jordan, Brandi Preston, and Agela Rahman.
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Xu et al., 2015; n = 86; mean age = 13.5 (1.5) years; wearing a brace > 12 h/d for 3 months; mean Cobb angle = 30.5 degrees; Chinese sample)
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Xu et al., 2015)
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Xu et al., 2015)
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Misterska, Głowacki, & Harasymczuk, 2009; n = 35; median age = 14.8 (1.5) years; wearing a brace 14.9 h/d for 16.1 mos; median Cobb's angle = 27.8 degrees; Polish sample)
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Xu et al., 2015)
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Misterska et al., 2009)
*Scores higher than .9 may indicate redundancy in the scale questions.
Convergent validity:
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Xu et al., 2015)
*p < 0.01
BSSQ-Brace | Z-Skewness | Corrected Item-Total Correlation | Standard for Clinical Use |
Item 1 | 0.05 | 0.53 | Adequate |
Item 2 | -0.39 | 0.48 | Adequate |
Item 3 | -0.39 | 0.79 | Excellent |
Item 4 | -0.48 | 0.82 | Excellent |
Item 5 | -0.38 | 0.60 | Excellent |
Item 6 | -0.51 | 0.50 | Adequate |
Item 7 | -0.53 | 0.72 | Excellent |
Item 8 | -0.43 | 0.67 | Excellent |
BSSQ-Deformity | Z-Skewness | Corrected Item-Total Correlation | Standard for Clinical Use |
Item 1 | -0.26 | 0.62 | Excellent |
Item 2 | 0.03 | 0.66 | Excellent |
Item 3 | -0.22 | 0.59 | Adequate |
Item 4 | -0.34 | 0.21 | Poor |
Item 5 | -0.24 | 0.66 | Excellent |
Item 6 | 0.40 | 0.37 | Adequate |
Item 7 | 0.18 | 0.50 | Adequate |
Item 8 | 0.01 | 0.63 | Excellent |
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Misterska et al., 2009)
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Kotwicki, Kinel, Stryla, & Szulc, 2007; n = 111; mean age = 14.2 (2.2) years; mean Cobb's angle = 42.8 (17) degrees; mean Bunnell angle = 11.4 (4.5) degrees; Polish sample)
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: (Misterska et al., 2009)
Kotwicki, T., Kinel, E., Stryla, W., & Szulc, A. (2007). Estimation of the stress related to conservative scoliosis therapy: An analysis based on BSSQ questionnaires. Scoliosis Journal, 2(1). Find it on PubMed
Misterska, E., Głowacki, M., & Harasymczuk, J. (2009). Polish adaptation of Bad Sobernheim Stress Questionnaire-Brace and Bad Sobernheim Stress Questionnaire-Deformity. European Spine Journal, 18(12), 1911. Find it on PubMed
Xu, X., Wang, F., Yang, M., Huang, Q., Chang, Y., Wei, X., … Li, M. (2015). Chinese Adaptation of the Bad Sobernheim Stress Questionnaire for patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis under brace treatment. Medicine, 94(31). Find it on PubMed
We have reviewed more than 500 instruments for use with a number of diagnoses including stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury among several others.