Introduction: Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Typically, pain is measured by intensity and sensory characteristics. Although intensity is one of the most common dimension, it has been suggested that measuring pain intensity in isolation does not measure pain accurately. The PFSD scale assesses multiple aspects of pain such as frequency, severity/intensity, and duration. The need of study is to translate PFSD in Gujarati language and find the reliability and validity in adult patients with musculoskeletal disorders.
Methodology: The PFSD scale was translated in Gujarati language and face validity was established. To find concurrent validity fifty patients with musculoskeletal disorders like neck, shoulder, back and knee pain were taken in the study. Patients were asked to complete a standard NPRS scale and then gujarati version of PFSD scale was administered. Validity was assessed using correlation and reliability was determined using intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC).
Results: The spearman’s correlation for validity was found to be 0.87 (p<0.01). The intraclass correlation coefficient for intra rater reliability was found to be 0.79 (ICC = 0.79, 0.45-0.90).
Conclusion: The study concludes that gujarati version of PFSD scale has good validity and intra rater reliability.
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