Open AccessReliability and validity of the Yoruba version of the Oswestry disability index
Author(s) -
Ayoola Ibifubara Aiyegbusi,
Ashiyat Kehinde Akodu,
Eniolorunda Olajide Agbede
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nigerian postgraduate medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 1117-1936
DOI - 10.4103/npmj.npmj_26_17
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , yoruba , oswestry disability index , intraclass correlation , medicine , reliability (semiconductor) , rank correlation , physical therapy , low back pain , context (archaeology) , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , statistics , linguistics , mathematics , geography , philosophy , power (physics) , alternative medicine , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , archaeology
Low back pain (LBP) is a major cause of disability, and the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a validated assessment tool for evaluating disability in LBP patients. Cross-cultural adaptation of the ODI is important because not all populations are proficient in English. The Yoruba language is an indigenous language spoken by 40 million people in the Western part of Nigeria and some countries in West Africa and Latin America. Currently, no validated Yoruba version of ODI is available.