Development And Validation Of A Taxonomy Of Cognitive Motor Tasks For Gait Evaluation In Community Dwelling Elderly Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

KEYWORDS newlineSelf-administered Questionnaire, Validation, Psychometric properties, Early newlinepatellofemoral osteoarthritis newlineBACKGROUND newlineKnee osteoarthritis is the leading cause of global burden in musculoskeletal newlinedisorders. It is proven that knee osteoarthritis begins from the surface of the newlinesesamoid bone and progresses to the large tibiofemoral joint. Crepitus, anterior newlineknee pain, stiffness, and difficulty in functional activities are reported as initial newlinesymptoms of arthritis in the population gt40-year age, and the census for newlineosteoarthritis newlinerecommends focusing on the pre-diagnostic stage. newlineThe prevalence rate of patellofemoral arthritis is 39% in South Asia. newlineThe International patellofemoral osteoarthritis consortium 2018 also demanded newlinethe development and validation the condition-specific tools to identify newlinepatellofemoral arthritis. Soon after, Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome newlineScore for patellofemoral pain and osteoarthritis (KOOS-PF) was the only tool newlinedeveloped for patellofemoral disorders. The early patellofemoral arthritis newlinepopulation has not undergone any known-group validation of KOOS-PF. The newlineindividual with patellofemoral arthritis plays a key role as an informant in newlineexploring the symptoms and developing the screening tool. newlineThe objectives of the research are: 1) to validate the existing scale for early newlinecases of patellofemoral arthritis, 2) to develop the contents of the questionnaire newlinewhich can potentially identify the early symptoms of the condition, and 3) to newlineevaluate the psychometric properties of a self-administered questionnaire to newlineidentify the early symptoms of patellofemoral arthritis among the Gujarati newlinespeaking Indian population. newlineMETHODS newlineEthical approval was obtained from the CHARUSAT Institutional ethical newlinecommittee CHA/IEC/ADM/20/07/622.2. A mixed-method multiple-phase newlineiii newlineresearch design has been used. The KOOS-PF translation and validation were newlinecarried out on n=144 individuals with EPFOA. Then, the self-administer