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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, G?owacki, & 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).
Misterska, E., G?owacki, M., & Harasymczuk, J. (2009). Polish adaptation of Bad Sobernheim Stress Questionnaire-Brace and Bad Sobernheim Stress Questionnaire-Deformity. European Spine Journal, 18(12), 1911.
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).
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.