Sammendrag
Body Awareness Rating Scale (BARS) is a structured physiotherapeutic assessment
tool with roots in Basic Body Awareness Therapy (B BAT). It is made to
evaluate the effect of B BAT in relation to people suffering from long lasting
pain problems, eating disorders, lifestyle problems etc. The content of BARS
is the physiotherapists` observation of movement quality together with the
patients` description of the movement experience, lying, sitting, standing,
walking and movement in pair. The purpose is to study the inter-rater and the
test-retest reliability, internal consistency, to validate BARS in relation to
theoretical validity and to see how BARS functions in relation to other
health-related tests. The study is a cross sectional and a test-retest study.
Two qualified physiotherapists` in BARS, both from the municipal
physio-therapy, will do the tests. 50 persons are included: 30 will
participate in the reliability study and 50 in the validity study. Half of the
informants are recruited from patients` coming to physiotherapy, patients
suffering from long-lasting muscle-skeletal problems and mental problems. The
other half of the informants is a group of healthy working persons. The
informants vary in age (not below 18 year) and sexes. The physiotherapists`
use of BARS, General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (GPSES) and Short Form-36
Health Survey (SF-36) are to be included in a usual clinical situation.
Written informed content is used. Kappa and ICC will be used for analysing the
data. The project is accepted by the Regional Committee for Medical Research
Ethics and by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. The study aims at
new knowledge concerning the assessment tool Body Awareness Rating Scale
(BARS) in a more comprehensive study. This might give indications if BARS can
be used in the way it is formed today.
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Vitenskapelig sammendrag
Body Awareness Rating Scale (BARS) is a structured physiotherapeutic assessment
tool with roots in Basic Body Awareness Therapy (B BAT). It is made to
evaluate the effect of B BAT in relation to people suffering from long lasting
pain problems, eating disorders, lifestyle problems etc. The content of BARS
is the physiotherapists` observation of movement quality together with the
patients` description of the movement experience, lying, sitting, standing,
walking and movement in pair. The purpose is to study the inter-rater and the
test-retest reliability, internal consistency, to validate BARS in relation to
theoretical validity and to see how BARS functions in relation to other
health-related tests. The study is a cross sectional and a test-retest study.
Two qualified physiotherapists` in BARS, both from the municipal
physio-therapy, will do the tests. 50 persons are included: 30 will
participate in the reliability study and 50 in the validity study. Half of the
informants are recruited from patients` coming to physiotherapy, patients
suffering from long-lasting muscle-skeletal problems and mental problems. The
other half of the informants is a group of healthy working persons. The
informants vary in age (not below 18 year) and sexes. The physiotherapists`
use of BARS, General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (GPSES) and Short Form-36
Health Survey (SF-36) are to be included in a usual clinical situation.
Written informed content is used. Kappa and ICC will be used for analysing the
data. The project is accepted by the Regional Committee for Medical Research
Ethics and by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services. The study aims at
new knowledge concerning the assessment tool Body Awareness Rating Scale
(BARS) in a more comprehensive study. This might give indications if BARS can
be used in the way it is formed today.
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