Authors: Luis Antonio MorenoTorres Adolfo Gabriel HernándezGarduño Carmen Araceli ArellanoValdés Aarón SalinasRodríguez Nadina RubioPerez Ingris PeláezBallestas
Publish Date: 2015/10/31
Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 495-503
Abstract
The aim of this study was to validate the paediatric Gait Arms Legs Spine pGALS tool for Mexican Spanish to screen Mexican paediatric population for musculoskeletal MSK disorders A crosssectional study was performed in the Paediatric Hospital of the Mexican Social Security Institute in Guadalajara Jalisco The validation included children and adolescents aged 6–16 years 87 patients with musculoskeletal disorders and 88 controls without musculoskeletal disorders The crosscultural validation followed the current published guidelines The average pGALS administration time was 29 min SD 054 The internal consistency score Cronbach’s α was 090 089 for inflammatory and 077 for noninflammatory disorders for MSK disorders with a sensitivity of 97 95 CI 92–99 a specificity of 93 95 CI 86–97 a LR+ of 143 and a ROC curve of 095 95 CI 092–098 The inflammatory disorders group had a sensitivity of 97 95 CI 86–99 a specificity of 93 95 CI 86–97 a LR+ of 142 and a ROC curve of 095 95 CI 091–099 The noninflammatory disorders group had a sensitivity of 98 95 CI 89–99 a specificity of 93 95 CI 86–97 and a LR+ of 1437 with a ROC curve of 095 95 CI 092–098 pGALS is a valid screening tool fast easy to administer and useful for detecting musculoskeletal disorders in Mexican children and adolescents
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