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Development and test–retest reliability of a screening tool for axial spondyloarthritis

BACKGROUND: People with axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) suffer from lengthy diagnostic delays of ~7 years. The usage of screening tools to identify axSpA patients in primary care can reduce diagnostic delays by facilitating early referral to rheumatologic care. The purpose of this study was to exami...

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Autores principales: Shridharmurthy, Divya, Lapane, Kate L., Khan, Sara, Yi, Esther, Baek, Jonggyu, Kay, Jonathan, Liu, Shao-Hsien
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269494
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author Shridharmurthy, Divya
Lapane, Kate L.
Khan, Sara
Yi, Esther
Baek, Jonggyu
Kay, Jonathan
Liu, Shao-Hsien
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description BACKGROUND: People with axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) suffer from lengthy diagnostic delays of ~7 years. The usage of screening tools to identify axSpA patients in primary care can reduce diagnostic delays by facilitating early referral to rheumatologic care. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a potential screening tool for patients with axSpA. METHOD: Content validity was evaluated by soliciting feedback from 7 rheumatologists regarding the relevance and content representativeness of the proposed screening questions. For the test-retest study, participants ≥18 years of age with chronic back pain (≥3 months) without a diagnosis of mechanical or inflammatory back pain (n = 91) were e-recruited through ResearchMatch. Participation included completing identical baseline and follow-up questionnaires ~14 days apart. Weighted quadratic kappa was used to measure test-retest reliability between the two ratings of the ordinal scales. Construct validity was examined using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and items with factor loadings ≥0.6 were extracted. Scale dimensionality and simplified factorial solutions were measured using Kaiser’s criteria (Eigenvalue >1). Cronbach’s alpha was used to measure internal consistency. RESULTS: Most participants were women, non-Hispanic white, and had at least some college education, with a mean age of 45 years. On average, the age at onset of back pain was 31 years. Eleven questions yielded test–retest reliabilities ranging from 0.6 to 0.76. Results from EFA extracted two factors relating to: 1) how pain affects daily life functioning and 2) whether pain improves with movement. Internal consistency was high for questions evaluating how pain affects life, with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.81. Following assessment for validity and reliability, the questionnaire was revised to create the 6-item screening tool. CONCLUSIONS: The 6-item SpA-SED screening tool designed to identify potential cases of axSpA was found to have good test–retest reliability and high internal consistency.
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spelling pubmed-92694062022-07-09 Development and test–retest reliability of a screening tool for axial spondyloarthritis Shridharmurthy, Divya Lapane, Kate L. Khan, Sara Yi, Esther Baek, Jonggyu Kay, Jonathan Liu, Shao-Hsien PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: People with axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) suffer from lengthy diagnostic delays of ~7 years. The usage of screening tools to identify axSpA patients in primary care can reduce diagnostic delays by facilitating early referral to rheumatologic care. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a potential screening tool for patients with axSpA. METHOD: Content validity was evaluated by soliciting feedback from 7 rheumatologists regarding the relevance and content representativeness of the proposed screening questions. For the test-retest study, participants ≥18 years of age with chronic back pain (≥3 months) without a diagnosis of mechanical or inflammatory back pain (n = 91) were e-recruited through ResearchMatch. Participation included completing identical baseline and follow-up questionnaires ~14 days apart. Weighted quadratic kappa was used to measure test-retest reliability between the two ratings of the ordinal scales. Construct validity was examined using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and items with factor loadings ≥0.6 were extracted. Scale dimensionality and simplified factorial solutions were measured using Kaiser’s criteria (Eigenvalue >1). Cronbach’s alpha was used to measure internal consistency. RESULTS: Most participants were women, non-Hispanic white, and had at least some college education, with a mean age of 45 years. On average, the age at onset of back pain was 31 years. Eleven questions yielded test–retest reliabilities ranging from 0.6 to 0.76. Results from EFA extracted two factors relating to: 1) how pain affects daily life functioning and 2) whether pain improves with movement. Internal consistency was high for questions evaluating how pain affects life, with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.81. Following assessment for validity and reliability, the questionnaire was revised to create the 6-item screening tool. CONCLUSIONS: The 6-item SpA-SED screening tool designed to identify potential cases of axSpA was found to have good test–retest reliability and high internal consistency. Public Library of Science 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9269406/ /pubmed/35802613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269494 Text en © 2022 Shridharmurthy et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Development and test–retest reliability of a screening tool for axial spondyloarthritis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269494
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