Validation and cultural adaptation of Russian version of KOOS-Child questionnaire

Introduction. In our research 100 patients (51 male and 49 female) aged below 18 were assessed with the following knee problems: meniscal, anterior cruciate ligament, posterior cruciate ligament tears, mediopatellar plica syndrome, osteochondritis dissecans.

Aim: validation and cultural adaptation English version of KOOS-Child questionnaire for Russian language children and adolescent patients. Also, for using in N.N. Priorov National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics and other medical hospitals of Russian Federation.

Materials and methods. KOOS-Child has been translated in Russian language by orthopedist who is advanced in English and by professional medical translator. For control group we used Lysholm knee score. After all procedures statistical analysis was used. It consists of 3 stages: general data analysis, validation checking of questionnaire, checking objectivity and relevance of results.

Conclusions. Cronbach’s alpha test score shows up very high-level consistency of the questions (0,959). Questions have high discriminatory power and results of assessment are objective and adequate. Methods of statistical analysis showed up that questionnaire can be use in practice by orthopedist.