Cultural and linguistic adaptation of "Athletic Fear Avoidance Questionnaire" - Portuguese version

• Autor(a) principal: Leitão, Rita Alexandra Borges Guimarães Meneses
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/16146
• topic: Fear Avoidance; Sport lesion; Return to sports

The athlete's funcional performance after injury is influenced by physical, psychological and social factors. However, the general criteria for return to sport do not include the evaluation of psychological variables, despite the evidence for their use. The Athletic Fear Avoidance Questionnaire was designed to address this shortcoming. To make the cultural and linguistic adaptation of AFAQ for the Portuguese population. AFAQ was submitted to a processo f translation and backtranslation. Pre-final version was pretested in thirty Portuguese athletes with current or past injuries, in focus groups. After final adjustments, test-related was made online thirty new athletes. Data were collected, including age, gender and practice questions. During pilot test, the participants reported difficulty in using “evitamento” and in the title construction. Test-retest evaluations presented na average score of 22,97 (SD=8,82) ando f 23,13 (SD=8,66), respectively, and the ICC of 0,969 revealed na excelente test-retest reliability. The Portuguese version of AFAQ assumed the title “Questionário de evitamento por medo associado ao desporto (AFAQ-Portugal)”. After is validation, it might be used by the Portuguese athletic population and its medical teams in rehabilitation and thus identify psychological readiness to Return To Sport.