The Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire.
Description: The Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire is a selfreported outcome measure that was first published in 1983. It provides a tool for measuring the level of disability experienced by a person suffering from low back pain. Since then, it has become one of the most widely used outcome measures for low back pain. The original 24 item measure has been shortened to create 18 item and 23 item versions and has been cross culturally adapted or translated for use in other countries. The original and the different language/cultural versions are available at www.rmdq.org; no permissions are required for their use or reproduction. Despite the various adaptions of the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire, the original is still the most widely used and validated. Therefore, the original version will be [2_TD$DIFF]the [3_TD$DIFF]focus of this summary. The Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire consists of 24 statements relating to the person's perceptions of their back pain and associated disability. This includes items on physical ability/ activity (15) sleep/rest (3) psychosocial (2) household management (2) eating (1) and pain frequency (1) It is designed to take approximately 5 minutes to complete, without any assistance from the administrator. Instructions and scoring: The Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire can be administered face to face, electronically or over the phone. The respondent is presented with each statement and asked if they feel the statement is descriptive of their own circumstance on that day. For example, the first statement is 'I stay at home most of the day because of the pain in my back' If the respondent feels that this statement applies to them they 'tick' the statement, otherwise they leave it blank. To score the responses, a practitioner need only add up the number of items ticked. There is
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