Author(s)
Purpose
- Pathology:
Musculoskeletal diseases
Nervous system diseases
- Disease:
Fibromyalgia
- Objective:
To measure fibromyalgia patient status, progress and outcomes
- Population for intended use:
Adult
Characteristics
- Type of instrument:
Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
Physical functioning
Signs and symptoms
- Administration mode:
Self-administered
- Number of items:
20
- Recall/Observation period:
The past week
Language(s)
- Original language:
English for the USA
- List of existing translations:
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This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.
FIQ
| Afrikaans* | English for South Africa* | Icelandic | Slovak* |
| Arabic* | English for the UK* | Italian for Italy* | Spanish for Argentina* |
| Bulgarian* | Filipino* | Korean* | Spanish for Mexico* |
| Catalan | Finnish for Finland* | Mandarin for China* | Spanish for Puerto Rico* |
| Croatian* | French for Belgium* | Norwegian for Norway* | Spanish for Spain* |
| Czech* | French for Canada* | Polish for Poland* | Spanish for the USA* |
| Danish for Denmark* | French for France* | Portuguese for Brazil* | Swedish for Sweden* |
| Dutch for Belgium (Flemish)* | German for Austria* | Portuguese for Portugal* | Turkish for Turkey |
| Dutch for the Netherlands* | German for Germany* | Romanian* | Ukrainian* |
| English for Canada* | Greek* | Russian for Israel* | |
| English for Ireland | Hebrew* | Russian for Ukraine* | |
| English for New Zealand | Hungarian* | Serbian* |
* Performed by the MAPI Institute
Note: The author has selected MAPI Institute as exclusive linguistic validation company to ensure the production of harmonized and consistent language versions.
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Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire
Burckhardt CS, Clark SR, Bennett RM. The fibromyalgia impact questionnaire: development and validation. J Rheumatol. 1991 May;18(5):728-33 (PubMed abstract)
Bennett R. The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ): a review of its development, current version, operating characteristics and uses. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2005 Sep-Oct;23(5 Suppl 39):S154-62 (Full text article)
Last update: April 2012
Last update in collaboration with the author: August 2011
A revised version was developed in 2009: the Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQR) which since superseded the FIQ
The FIQ is distributed by MAPI Research Trust