• Eleni G Hapidou, Mary Ann O'Brien, Michael Raymond Pierrynowski, Eugenio de Las Heras, Madri Patel, and Tasneem Patla.
• Chronic Pain Management Unit, Chedoke Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences ; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences.
• Physiother Can. 2012 Jan 1;64(3):235-41.

PurposeTo determine the psychometric properties of the 11-item Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK-11) in patients with heterogeneous chronic pain.MethodsThe study evaluated test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation coefficient), cross-sectional convergent construct validity (Pearson product-moment correlation between TSK-11 and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale [PCS] scores at admission), and sensitivity to change of the TSK-11 (area under the receiver operating characteristic [ROC] curve) in patients (n=74) with heterogeneous chronic pain. We used two data sets (retrospective, n=56; prospective, n=18). All patients attended the 4-week interdisciplinary chronic pain management programme at Chedoke Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario.ResultsThe test-retest reliability of the TSK-11 was 0.81 (95% CI, 0.58-0.93), the standard error of measurement was 2.41 (90% CI, 1.47-2.49), and the minimal detectible change score was 5.6. The correlation between TSK-11 and PCS at admission was 0.60 (95% CI, 0.43-0.73). The area under the ROC curve was 0.73 (95% CI, 0.57-0.88).ConclusionsThe study results provide evidence for the test-retest reliability, cross-sectional convergent construct validity, and sensitivity to change of the TSK-11 in a population with heterogeneous chronic pain.

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