The Attitudes to Back Pain Scale in musculoskeletal practitioners (ABS-mp): The development and testing of a new questionnaire

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 378-386

  Pincus, Tamar ^a   Vogel, Steven ^b   Santos, Rita ^a   Breen, Alan ^c   Foster, Nadine ^d   Underwood, Martin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c ANGLO EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Beliefs; Low back pain; Musculoskeletal practitioners; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; VALIDITY; ADULT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPTICS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHIROPRACTIC; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPTICS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33745883559     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000178223.85636.49     Document Type: Article

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