Evaluation of the Predictive Validity of the Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire

Abstract

The Orebro questionnaire had similar predictive ability in Norway and Australasia when pain was used as an outcome, whereas the Orebro tended to be a stronger predictor in Norway when disability was used as outcome.

A Transdiagnostic Approach to Pain and Emotion

“…The literature on the development of chronic disabling back pain points out that mechanisms such as pain‐related fear and catastrophic worry may be in play within hours of a painful injury (Leeuw et al., ; Linton, ). Furthermore, screening procedures that in part tap into these mechanisms have successfully identified patients who likely will development long‐term pain‐related disability (Hill, Dunn, Main, & Hay, ; Maher & Grotle, ; Melloh et al., ; Nicholas et al., ; Reme et al., ). In addition, the conceptualization outlined in this paper maintains that a response to a stimulus that triggers pain and/or emotion is modifiable.…”

Patellofemoral Pain: Proximal, Distal, and Local Factors—2nd International Research Retreat, August 31–September 2, 2011, Ghent, Belgium

“…The OMPSQ is a 25-item screening questionnaire (of which 21 are scored) that consists of items involving pain location (item 4), work absence due to pain (item 5), pain duration (item 6), pain intensity (items 8 and 9), control over pain (item 11), frequency of pain episodes (item 10), functional ability (items 20 through 24), mood (items 12 and 13), perceptions of work (items 7 and 16), patients estimate of prognosis (items 14 and 15), and fear-avoidance (items 17 through 19). 194 The scored-items are summed to provide a total score potentially ranging from 0 to 210, with higher scores indicating a higher risk of poor outcome.Measurement methodSelf-reportNature of variableContinuousUnits of measurementIndividual items rated on a 0 to 10 scaleMeasurement propertiesThe ability of the OMPSQ to predict long-term pain, disability, and sick leave has been supported in previous studies, 202 including a systematic review of 7 publications (5 discrete datasets). 156 SUBGROUPS FOR TARGETED TREATMENT BACK SCREENING TOOL ICF CategoryMeasurement of limitation in activities and participation - completing the daily routine; purposeful sensory experiences, specified as repetitive perception of non-injurious sensory stimuli; and interacting according to social rulesMeasurement of impairment of body function – pain in back; pain in lower limb; content of thought; and thought functions, specified as the tendency to elaborate physical symptoms for cognitive/ideational reasons; appropriateness of emotion (mental functions that produce congruence of feeling or affect with the situation, such as happiness at receiving good news); range of emotion (mental functions that produce the spectrum of experience of arousal of affect or feelings such as love, hate, anxiousness, sorrow, joy, fear and anger); and emotional functions, specified as the tendency to elaborate physical symptoms for emotional/affective reasonsDescriptionThe Subgroups for Targeted Treatment (STarT) Back Screening Tool is a 9-item screening measure used to identify subgroups of patients with low back pain in primary care settings based on the presence of potentially modifiable prognostic factors which may be useful in matching patients with targeted interventions.…”

Spanish version of the screening Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire: a cross-cultural adaptation and validation

“…This screening questionnaire relates to and assesses the patient’s bio-psychosocial aspects. The scored items evaluate pain location, work absence due to pain, pain duration, pain intensity, control over the pain, frequency of pain episodes in the past three months, functional ability, mood perceptions of work, patient’s estimate of prognosis and fear avoidance [9]. A score of <105 points (max value is 210) indicates low disability, a score between 105 and 130, moderate disability, and a higher score, high disability, where the specificity and sensibility in assessed disability show 0.75 and 0.88 respectively [8].…”

“…A score of <105 points (max value is 210) indicates low disability, a score between 105 and 130, moderate disability, and a higher score, high disability, where the specificity and sensibility in assessed disability show 0.75 and 0.88 respectively [8]. It has a predictive validity ranging between 0.62–0.75 for pain and 0.68–0.83 for disability [9,10]. It has also shown the same predictability in countries as diverse as Norway and Australia [11].…”