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Aberdeen Back Pain Scale (ABPS)

[ An Extended-ABPS also exists ]

	Author(s)
Garratt Andrew M Ruta Danny A

Purpose

Pathology:

Nervous system diseases
Pathological conditions signs and symptoms

Disease:

Back pain
Pain

Objective:

To measure health status in patients with Low Back Pain

Population:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

Mode of administration:

Self-administered

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Time recall:

The last two weeks

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)

ABPS: Chinese for Hong Kong

Extended-ABPS: German

Last update: October 2008
Last update in collaboration with the author: October 2002