Abstract
With aprevalence of 7-30%, shoulder disorders form the third largest group of musculoskeletal complaints. Their formation and development is influenced by, e.g. psychological factors. The Tampa scale for kinesiophobia (TSK) is the most common measure for quantifying fear of movement. To investigate the reliability and validity of the German version of the TSK (TSK-GV) in ashoulder pain population. Subjects with shoulder pain were included in amulticenter cross-sectional study. In addition to kinesiophobia, pain intensity, subjective impairment in daily life and fear-avoidance beliefs were recorded. Atotal of 49subjects (24women and 25men) with amean age of 41.8 (SD = 12.8) were included. The descriptive evaluation at item level showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.81). The homogeneity of the scale is poor (Loevinger's H = 0.35). The correlations did not show any clear convergence of the TSK-GV with the fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire (FABQ) (r = 0.3501; p = 0.0137). The divergent validity was confirmed for both the numerical rating scale (NRS) (r = 0.1216; p = 0.4052) and the shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) (r = 0.2571; p = 0.0745). The hypothesis testing resulted in 28.57% accepted hypotheses. There was asignificant influence of the TSK-GV and the FABQ on the duration of complaints (R2 = 0.3652; p ≤ 0.0001), as well as an explained variance of the duration of complaints on the TSK-GV of R2 = 0.1834 (p = 0.0021). The subgroup analysis showed asignificantly higher degree of kinesiophobia in male subjects (t = 3.8084/df = 47; p = 0.0002). The TSK-GV is areliable measurement tool. The construct validity should be further investigated in future studies. This study shows comparable values to previous studies in other populations. The TSK-GV is to date the only validated German language measure for recording fear of movement in shoulder disorders and shows an acceptable fit for this population.
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