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Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire
The Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) is a brief, disease-specific self-report measure developed by Morris Roland and Ruth Morris in 1983 to assess functional disability and activity limitations in patients with acute and chronic low back pain. With 24 items addressing daily activities impacted by back pain, it has become one of the most widely used disability measures in low back pain research and clinical practice.
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- Roland, M., & Morris, R. (1983). A study of the natural history of low-back pain. Part I: Development of a reliable and sensitive measure of disability in low-back pain. Spine, 8(2), 141-144. DOI: 10.1097/00007632-198303000-00004 ↗
- Stratford, P.W., Binkley, J.M., Riddle, D.L., & Guyatt, G.H. (1998). Sensitivity to change of the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire. Spine, 23(24), 2668-2673. DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199812150-00012 ↗
- Riddle, D.L., & Stratford, P.W. (1999). Interpreting validity indexes for diagnostic tests: An illustration using the modified-modified Schober test. Physical Therapy, 79(10), 939-948. DOI: 10.1093/ptj/79.10.939 ↗