Oswestry Disability Index.

ODI

What it measures

Functional disability from low back pain across ten activities of daily living, expressed as a percentage disability score.

Length and format

10 sections. 6-option ordinal per section (0-5), summed and expressed as a percentage (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

~40+ languages with formal cross-cultural adaptations

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Fairbank, J. C., Couper, J., Davies, J. B., & O'Brien, J. P. (1980). The Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire. Physiotherapy, 66(8), 271-273.