Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire.
RMDQ
- What it measures
- Physical disability attributable to low back pain, as endorsed statements about what the person cannot do today.
- Length and format
- 24 (18-item and 11-item short forms exist). yes/no endorsement of each statement, summed (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- ~35+ languages
- 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
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Roland, M., & Morris, R. (1983). A study of the natural history of back pain. Part I: Development of a reliable and sensitive measure of disability in low-back pain. Spine, 8(2), 141-144.
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