Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia.
TSK
- What it measures
- Fear of movement / (re)injury (kinesiophobia) in the context of pain; activity-avoidance and somatic-focus components
- Length and format
- 17 (original); TSK-11 short form. 4-point agreement (strongly disagree to strongly agree); some reverse items; total 17-68 (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (one of the most translated pain-fear measures)
- 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
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Vlaeyen, J. W. S., et al. (1995). Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance. Pain, 62(3), 363-372.
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