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Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)

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ODI developed in 1980 ]

	Author(s)
Fairbank Jeremy

Purpose

Pathology:

Nervous system diseases
Pathological conditions signs and symptoms

Disease:

Back pain

Objective:

To indicate the extent to which a person’s functional level is restricted by disability

Population:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Physical functioning

Mode of administration:

Self-administered

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Time recall:

Today

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the UK

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

Albanian	French for Switzerland	Italian*	Portuguese for Brazil
Arabic for Tunisia	French*	Japanese	Romanian
Chinese for Taiwan	German for Austria *	Korean	Russian
Croatian	German for Switzerland	Mandarin for China	Spanish for Argentina
Czech*	German*	Norwegian	Spanish*
Danish*	Greek*	Persian	Swedish
Dutch	Hungarian	Persian	Thai
Estonian	Icelandic	Polish	Turkish
Finnish	Iranian	Portuguese

* translations 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. For additional information on available translations of this instrument, or for a project involving new languages, please contact our Information Unit at contact@mapi-trust.org

Last update: July 2010
Last update in collaboration with the author: August 2005

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