Reliability, validity and adaptability of the Hindi version of Berg Balance Scale in patients with impaired balance having neurological illness
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Cross-cultural Comparison, Patients, Physical Therapists, Pilot Projects, Psychometrics, ReliabilityAbstract
ABSTRACT | BACKGROUND: As the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) is the most widely adaptable tool for quantifying the balance and different translated versions of this scale are available among several nations worldwide, a cross-cultural adaptation of the Hindi version of BBS (H-BBS) was necessary to establish it as an appropriate tool in Indian culture also. METHODS: According to international guidelines, the pre-final H-BBS was obtained after forward and backward translations of the original version (O-BBS) were performed by bilingual independent translators and physiotherapists blinded to the original version, followed by a content validation phase. Further, the study recruited 356 patients, out of which 122 patients participated in pilot study and 234 patients in psychometric evaluation. RESULTS: The H-BBS exhibited an excellent total content validation index (0.984), a good to excellent inter-evaluator reliability for the individual domain (ranging from 0.761 to 1) and computed score (0.719), a good to excellent intra-evaluator reliability of the individual domain (ranging from 0.848 to 1) and computed score (0.994), an excellent total internal consistency of all items (0.913), an excellent criterion validity with O-BBS (0.993), MiniBESTest (0.894) and TUG (-0.946). CONCLUSION: The H-BBS is an adapted tool for quantifying balance among different neurological deficits.
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