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- Title
Translation and Validation of the Arabic Version of the Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire.
- Authors
Alhowimel, Ahmed S.; Alenazi, Aqeel M.; Alshehri, Mohammed M.; Alqahtani, Bader A.; Aljaman, Abdulaziz; Alzahrani, Hosam; Alodaibi, Faris; Rice, Simon M.
- Abstract
Context: The international sports community is becoming more proactive in clinical mental health practice and research. An athlete-specific psychological distress screening tool can identify potential mental health illness. Design: The Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire (APSQ) is a simple screening tool for detecting early signs of athlete-specific strain and related mental health concerns. Methods: We evaluated the internal consistency and reliability of the translated and culturally adjusted Arabic version of the APSQ (APSQ-Ar) with Arabic-speaking elite athletes. The final translation underwent standard forward and backward translation, an inspection by a team of experts, and then preliminary testing. The APSQ-Ar was cross-culturally validated and then assessed for internal consistency and reliability among (n = 98) Arabic-speaking athletes. Results: There were no problems with the patients' understanding or interpretation of the items on the APSQ-Ar translation. The intraclass correlation value was.93 (95% confidence interval,.89–.95), and the mean difference was 2.4 with a minimal detectable change of 5.12, demonstrating strong test–retest reliability. Moreover, Cronbach alpha showed excellent internal consistency (.76). Conclusions: The APSQ-Ar was demonstrated to be good, reliable, and internally consistent. With APSQ-Ar, sports medicine professionals in Arabic-speaking countries will be able to identify psychological distress and symptoms in athletes and, as a result, provide them with mental health support.
- Subjects
RELIABILITY (Personality trait); RESEARCH evaluation; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL reliability; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; ARABS; CROSS-sectional method; MENTAL health; CRONBACH'S alpha; T-test (Statistics); QUESTIONNAIRES; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; INTRACLASS correlation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; ELITE athletes
- Publication
Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 6, p709
- ISSN
1056-6716
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jsr.2022-0311