<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Objective:</strong></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span sty...<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Objective:</strong></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To investigate whether a physical therapist trained through the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) diploma program could guess psychological Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) scores of individuals with low back pain (LBP) by taking patient history and completing a physical evaluation.</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods: </span></b></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Ten participants with LBP completed PROMs immediately before history taking and again after a physical evaluation. PROMs included the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and Pain Coping Strategy Questionnaire. A physical therapist who completed the MDT diploma program took the patients’ history and completed their physical evaluation. The therapist completed the same PROMs immediately after both history taking and physical evaluation. Correlations between patient and therapist scores were calculated using Spearman’s </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Statistically significant positive correlations were detected in </span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the PCS (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> = 0.65) and TSK (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> = 0.78) before history taking, and in the PCS (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span>展开更多
文摘<span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Objective:</strong></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> To investigate whether a physical therapist trained through the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) diploma program could guess psychological Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) scores of individuals with low back pain (LBP) by taking patient history and completing a physical evaluation.</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods: </span></b></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Ten participants with LBP completed PROMs immediately before history taking and again after a physical evaluation. PROMs included the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and Pain Coping Strategy Questionnaire. A physical therapist who completed the MDT diploma program took the patients’ history and completed their physical evaluation. The therapist completed the same PROMs immediately after both history taking and physical evaluation. Correlations between patient and therapist scores were calculated using Spearman’s </span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Statistically significant positive correlations were detected in </span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the PCS (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> = 0.65) and TSK (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> = 0.78) before history taking, and in the PCS (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ρ</span>
