[en] Introduction: The Victorian Institute of Sports Assessment–Patellar (VISA-P), originally developed for English-speaking patients, assesses the severity of patellar tendinopathy symptoms. Although this questionnaire has already been translated into different languages, it has never been adapted for French-speaking patients, which is surprising. Indeed, French is not only spoken by most than 275 millions of people all around the world. The aim of our study was to validate a French version and verify its psychometric properties.
Materials and Methods: The translation and cultural adaptation were performed according to international recommendations in six steps: initial translation, translation merging, back translation to the original language, expert committee review to test the pre-final version, and expert committee appraisal. Once the final French version (VISA-PF) was obtained, certain psychometric properties were assessed in 92 subjects were included and divided into three groups: pathological subjects (n = 28), asymptomatic subjects (n = 22) and sports-risk subjects (n = 42).
Results: The different members of the expert committee agreed with the final version. The average scores of the VISA-PF obtained were 53 (± 17) for the pathological group, 99 (± 2) for the healthy group and 86 (± 14) for the sports-risk group. The test-retest reliability of the VISA-PF was excellent with an intra-class correlation coefficient of 0.99 and good internal consistency (α = 0.9). Correlations between the VISA-PF and diverging measures of the SF-36 were low and the correlation coefficient values measured between the VISA-PF scores and converged items of the SF-36 were higher.
Conclusion: The VISA-PF is understandable, reliable and suitable for French-speaking patients with patellar tendinopathy.
Disciplines :
Orthopedics, rehabilitation & sports medicine
Author, co-author :
Kaux, Jean-François ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Département des sciences de la motricité
Delvaux, François ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Médecine physique et réadaptation fonctionnelle
Oppong-Kyei, Julian
Beaudart, Charlotte ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la santé publique > Santé publique, Epidémiologie et Economie de la santé
Buckinx, Fanny ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la santé publique > Santé publique, Epidémiologie et Economie de la santé
Croisier, Jean-Louis ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Kinésithérapie générale et réadaptation
Forthomme, Bénédicte ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Rééducation du membre supérieur
Crielaard, Jean-Michel ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Evaluation et entraînement des aptitudes physiques
Bruyère, Olivier ; Université de Liège > Département des sciences de la santé publique > Santé publique, Epidémiologie et Economie de la santé
Language :
English
Title :
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the VISA-P questionnaire in French
Publication date :
September 2015
Event name :
9th European Congress on Sports Medicineth European Congress on Sports Medicine
Event organizer :
EFSMA
Event place :
Antwerp, Belgium
Event date :
10 - 12 September, 2015
Journal title :
European Journal of Sports Medicine
eISSN :
1792-4979
Publisher :
European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations (EFSMA), Ankara, Greece
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