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Italian Version of the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (dash) Questionnaire. Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation

From the Orthopedics Department, San Giacomo Hospital, Rome, Italy; GLOBE, Evidence based orthopedics working group of Italian Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Italy; Institute of Neurology, Institute of Orthopedics, Catholic University, Rome, Italy; IsPeO—Institue of Orthopedics Specialty, Rome, Italy; Institute of Orthopedics, University of Ferrara, Italy and Division of Hand Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Correspondence: Dr Roberto Padua, Orthopaedics Department, San Giacomo Hospital, via E. Gianturco 4, I-00196 Roma, Italy. Tel.: +39-06-3219092; Fax:+39-06-3219514; E-mail: rpadua{at}mclink.it.

An Italian version of the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire has been devised and its reliability and validity have been assessed in a cross-sectional study of 108 consecutive patients with upper extremity pathologies. A sub-sample of 30 patients was used to assess re-test reliability. The principal DASH scale showed a high correlation with other patient-oriented measures and demonstrated good reproducibility, consistency and validity, which were similar to those for other languages’ versions of DASH. These findings suggest that the evaluation capacities of the Italian DASH are equivalent to those of other language versions of the DASH.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 28, No. 2, 179-186 (2003)
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(02)00303-0


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