Foot Health Status Questionnaire

Lawrence Bevan · May 8, 2008

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Hi all

Im trying to identify from where I can obtain the "Foot Health Status Questionnaire"??

I have gone to the relevent website and emailed an enquiry to the originator but not had a reply. Does anyone use this and is it freely available or only under license?

Are there any other validated outcome tools anybody would recommend and are freely available?

Thanks
Lawrence

Craig Payne · May 8, 2008

Paul Bennett is the author of the FHSQ and is a member here, so hopefully he will stop by. He has this site.

In the meantime see these threads on outcome measures.

Lawrence Bevan · May 8, 2008

Thanks Craig

that was the site I referred to and I used a link to email Paul Bennett, maybe its a defunct email address.

NewsBot · Oct 18, 2008

We now have a Brazilian version:
Brazilian version of the foot health status questionnaire (FHSQ-BR): cross-cultural adaptation and evaluation of measurement properties.
Ferreira AF, Laurindo IM, Rodrigues PT, Ferraz MB, Kowalski SC, Tanaka C.
Clinics. 2008 Oct;63(5):595-600.

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a cross-cultural adaptation of the Foot Health Status Questionnaire into Brazilian-Portuguese and to assess its measurement properties. INTRODUCTION: This instrument is an outcome measure with 10 domains with scores ranging from 0-100, worst to best, respectively. The translated instrument will improve the examinations and foot care of rheumatoid arthritis patients.

METHODS: The questions were translated, back-translated, evaluated by a multidisciplinary committee and pre-tested (n = 40 rheumatoid arthritis subjects). The new version was submitted to a field test (n = 65) to evaluate measurement properties such as test-retest reliability, internal consistency and construct validity. The Health Assessment Questionnaire, Numeric Rating Scale for foot pain and Sharp/van der Heijde scores for foot X-rays were used to test the construct validity.

RESULTS: The cross-cultural adaptation was completed with minor wording adaptations from the original instrument. The evaluation of measurement properties showed high reliability with low variation coefficients between interviews. The a-Cronbach coefficients varied from 0.468 to 0.855, while correlation to the Health Assessment Questionnaire and Numeric Rating Scale was statistically significant for five out of eight domains.

DISCUSSION: Intra- and inter-observer correlations showed high reliability. Internal consistency coefficients were high for all domains, revealing higher values for less subjective domains. As for construct validity, each domain revealed correlations with a specific group of parameters according to what the domains intended to measure.

CONCLUSION: The FHSQ was cross-culturally adapted, generating a reliable, consistent, and valid instrument that is useful for evaluating foot health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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Dean Hartley · Aug 28, 2009

Lawrence Bevan said: ↑

Hi all

Im trying to identify from where I can obtain the "Foot Health Status Questionnaire"??

I have gone to the relevent website and emailed an enquiry to the originator but not had a reply. Does anyone use this and is it freely available or only under license?

Are there any other validated outcome tools anybody would recommend and are freely available?

Thanks
Lawrence
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I am also trying to get a hold of a copy of the FHSQ. Can anyone let me know where the best place is to find it, or obtain it from?

Regards,

admin · Aug 28, 2009

Contact Paul Bennett

LuckyLisfranc · Aug 29, 2009

Paul's direct email is: p.bennett@qut.edu.au

Just in case a PM does not reach him for some reason.

LL

shaghayegh · Jun 2, 2013

hi

I research about diabetes. I need foot health status questionnaire. please send me a copy of it
thanks

paulynlegaspi · Feb 2, 2017

Lawrence Bevan said: ↑

Hi all

Im trying to identify from where I can obtain the "Foot Health Status Questionnaire"??

I have gone to the relevent website and emailed an enquiry to the originator but not had a reply. Does anyone use this and is it freely available or only under license?

Are there any other validated outcome tools anybody would recommend and are freely available?

Thanks
Lawrence
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paulynlegaspi · Feb 2, 2017

hello ?? can i ask for your help sir, please? I'm looking for the cut off score of fhsq. Hoping for the answer ASAP i need this for our research work.

Craig Payne · Feb 2, 2017

paulynlegaspi said: ↑

hello ?? can i ask for your help sir, please? I'm looking for the cut off score of fhsq. Hoping for the answer ASAP i need this for our research work.
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I not sure what you mean by 'cut off score' - the FHSQ is a 'continuous' score with no real cut off point.

NewsBot · May 30, 2020

Foot Health Status Questionnaire (FHSQ) in Spanish People With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Preliminary Values Study
Francisco Javier Domínguez-Muñoz et al
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 May 22;17(10):E3643

Background and objectives: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic disease characterized by hyperglycemia. T2DM affects millions of people, and has a lot of complications such as impaired sensation in the feet. Moreover, it is important to know the health of the feet of people with T2DM. The aim of this study is to know the preliminary values of the Foot Health Status Questionnaire (FHSQ) in people with T2DM.

Materials and methods: A total of 87 patients with T2DM with an average age of 65.56 years, divided in 54 men and 33 women, participated in this cross-sectional study. The main outcome was the health of the foot as measured by the FHSQ questionnaire. This questionnaire collects data on eight dimensions: Foot Pain, Foot Function, Shoe, General Foot Health, General Health, Physical Activity, Social Capacity, and Vigor.

Results: Patients with T2DM have lower values in Foot Pain; median values in General Foot Health and high values in Foot Function, Shoe, Physical Activity and Social Capacity. Some of these dimensions are affected by age, diabetes control, Body Mass Index (BMI), and years of diagnosis. Females with T2DM have more problems than males in the Shoe, General Foot Health, Physical Activity and Vigor dimensions.

Conclusions: this research gives us preliminary values of the FHSQ in Spanish patients with T2DM and divided by gender, age, diabetes control, BMI, and years of diagnosis in people with T2DM.
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NewsBot · May 8, 2022

Translation and Validation of 'Foot Health Status Questionnaire' in Dutch
H A Martijn et al
J Foot Ankle Surg. 2022 Mar 31

The aim of our study was to develop a Dutch version of the Foot Health Status Questionnaire (FHSQ-NL) and evaluate its measurement properties according to the COSMIN definition (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments). After translation of the FSHQ, a group of 119 randomly selected patient who visited the outpatient clinic for conditions affecting the foot and ankle were asked to participate, of which103 patients were included in the analysis. The FHSQ-NL, a validated Dutch FAOS and a visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain and function were used in this study as outcomes measures. Reliability was assessed by calculating intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), internal consistency by Cronbach's alpha, and the smallest detectable change (SDC). Construct validity was evaluated by use of a priori hypotheses concerning Spearman's correlation coefficient between FHSQ subscales and FAOS and VAS. All domains of the FHSQ-NL, besides 'General health,' indicated good internal consistency with a Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.61 to 0.91. Test-retest reliability of all FHSQ domains was poor with an ICC ranging from 0.47 to 0.77. At individual level, the SDC ranged from 35.1 to 60.6 and at a group level (n = 50) from 5.0 to 8.6. Construct validity was supported by confirmation of 75% of all a priori hypotheses. The FHSQ-NL has good internal consistency and smallest detectable change (SDC) at group level. However, reliability and SDC on individual level show suboptimal results. Therefore, the questionnaire is more suitable for evaluating foot complaints at group level instead of individual level.
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NewsBot · Aug 14, 2023

Arabic Translation, Cross Cultural Adaptation, and
Validation of Foot Health Status Questionnaire
Among Saudi Individuals with Plantar Fasciitis
Sulaiman Abdullah Alshammari et al
Research Square

Background
Measuring quality of life (QoL) plays an essential role in enabling meaningful cross-cultural
comparisons. The Foot Health Status Questionnaire (FHSQ) is a valid tool for assessing both footspecific and general health-related quality of life (HrQoL), making it suitable for evaluating Plantar
Fasciitis (PF) patients.
Methodology:
The aim of this study is to translate the FHSQ into Arabic following methodological assessments of the
translation procedure. The translation was done using forward and back translation. A pre-test
questionnaire was distributed among 50 patients, resulting in the final FHSQ-Ar version which then
underwent various psychometric evaluations among 87 person with PF, including internal consistency,
dimensionality, reliability, interpretability, and construct validity against the 100mm Visual Analogue
Scale (VAS).
Results
Internal consistency was adequate, ranging from 0.70 to 0.92. Reliability values ranged from 0.69 to 0.80,
with poor standard error of measurement (individual) but acceptable standard error of measurement
(group). Two domains exhibited floor effects while one domain showed a ceiling effect. Regarding
validity, all hypothesized correlations with VAS scores were confirmed. Factor analysis revealed four
dimensions, and confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated good fit (comparative fit index = 0.98,
standardized root mean square = 0.06).
Conclusion
The psychometric properties of FHSQ-Ar were satisfactory. Further validation in other diseases may be
warranted.
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