| Name of the Instrument/Tool | Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire (FreBAQ) |
| First Description |
Wand BM, James M, Abbaszadeh S, George PJ, Formby PM, Smith AJ, O'Connell NE. Assessing self-perception in patients with chronic low back pain: development of a back-specific body-perception questionnaire. J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil. 2014;27(4):463-73. |
| Year | 2014 |
| Domains | |
| Concept of constructs | Body image |
| Population/Disease | Generic |
| Originally developed for | Low Back Pain (LBP) |
| Other rheumatic diseases where can be applied (only if validated) |
Osteoarthritis (OA) |
| Additional population with no rheumatic diseases |
No |
| Language: Originally published in | English |
| Available in Language | Japanese, Persian, French, Thai, Italian, German, Turkish, Dutch |
| REFERENCE IDENTIFICATION | |
| Author/s | Wand BM, James M, Abbaszadeh S, George PJ, Formby PM, Smith AJ, O'Connell NE. |
| Title | Assessing self-perception in patients with chronic low back pain: development of a back-specific body-perception questionnaire |
| Journal | J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil |
| Year | 2014 |
| Vol | 27 |
| Num | 4 |
| Pages | 463-73 |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Other references of interest | |
| Link | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27327235/ |
| Brief Description |
Disrupted Self-Perception in People With Chronic Low Back Pain. Further Evaluation of the Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire |
| Instrument/Tool Translations References | |
| Link | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33827594/ |
| Brief Description |
Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability and validity of the Fremantle Knee Awareness Questionnaire in Italian subjects with painful knee osteoarthritis |
| Link | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30325886/ |
| Brief Description |
Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire |
| Link | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33794840/ |
| Brief Description |
Validation and investigation of cross cultural equivalence of the Fremantle back awareness questionnaire - German version (FreBAQ-G) |
| DEVELOPER CONTACT INFORMATION | |
| Correspondence to | Benedict Martin Wand |
| The School of Physiotherapy, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA, Australia | |
| Address | Benedict.wand@nd.edu.au |
| Website | --- |
| Available | --- |
| Links | --- |
| DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENT | |
| Type Of Measure | Questionnaire |
| Brief Description |
The FreBAQ is a multi-item, self-report questionnaire designed to quantify distorted perception of the back. When completing the questionnaire, patients are instructed to indicate the degree to which their back feel that way when they were experiencing back pain. |
| Number of Items | 9 |
| Range | 0-36 |
| Responses options/scale |
Yes From 0 to 4 |
| Developed for | Both |
| PRACTICAL APPLICATION | |
| Method of administration | Self-administered, Interviewer/assessor |
| Recommendations to score |
A five-point response scale (range: 0 = ‘never’ up to 4 = ‘always’) is used to enable quantitative assessment of any reported symptoms, the final score is obtained by summing the responses from each of the nine items such that the total score could range from zero to 36. |
| Score Interpretation | Higher scores indicate higher levels of disrupted body image. |
| Cut-off points | --- |
| Cut-off points applied to | --- |
| Smallest detectable change if described | --- |
| Smallest detectable change applied to | --- |
| Completion time by the patient | - minutes |
| Scoring time by the assessor | - minutes |
| Training to score | Not necessary |
| Strengths | Easy to use, Widely used |
| Limitations | --- |
| OTHER COMMENTS | |
| Other Comments |
Specific models for different body parts where developed and validated:
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