Cross Cultural Adaptation of Functional Status Questionnaire (FSQ) in Urdu Language in CABG Patients

The Functional Status Questionnaire (FSQ) is a self-administered functional assessment that provides information on the patient's physical, psychological, social and role functions. The Functional Status Questionnaire is easier and more feasible to complete in short duration of time than the long forms. The FSQ was originally developed in English. It has been translated and validated in several languages and showed excellent reliability and responsiveness. The FSQ questionnaire is translated in Urdu to assess general health, ADLs and functional status of Post Coronary artery bypass graft surgery(CABG) patients. Translation will be performed by two independent translators going through all the steps following the guidelines. The two synthesized translations and the two back translations will be merged into one pre- final version of Urdu FSQ. The expert panel will then compare the conceptual equivalence, experiential equivalence, linguistic equivalence and metric equivalence. After this the final version of Urdu FSQ will be evaluated for validity in 50 Post CABG patients after getting their informed consent to participate in the study and their demographic characteristics. Inclusion criteria involves male and female patients of age between 40 to 60 years (ambulatory). Exclusion criteria includes patients with disability that prevent independent walking, acute cardiac condition, neurological conditions, cognitive impaired problem etc. Reliability and validity of FSQ Urdu version will be evaluated. It has been translated and validated in several languages and showed excellent reliability and responsiveness. However up to-date there is no validated Urdu version of the FSQ available. So, it is essential to translate FSQ in Urdu language to make it more comprehensive for local population who doesn't have command on English language. The purpose of this study is cross-cultural translation of the FSQ into Urdu language and to validate it into Urdu speaking population.

Hence, this study is aimed to produce the Urdu version for Urdu speaking countries, it will have a great significance for the physiotherapists, researchers and educators to assess CABG patients general health, QoL, functional status and ADLs where time is short because FSQ makes it easier to collect data from large populations in comparatively lesser time than long assessment forms.