Development and Test-Retest Reliability of an Extended Version of the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ-E): A Screening Instrument for Musculoskeletal Pain

Journal of Pain

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 517-526

  Dawson, Anna P ^a   Steele, Emily J ^b   Hodges, Paul W ^a   Stewart, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

musculoskeletal pain; Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire; questionnaire; reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NURSING STUDENT; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCREENING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349219358     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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