same study was published from another group

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. Some of the most used Questionnaires, unfortunately, are not available in Italian.

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. Some of the most used Questionnaires, unfortunately, are not available in Italian. This poses a problem when evaluating Italian speaking patients. Our aim is to develop a culturally adapted Italian version of the Michigan Hand Questionnaire. There is no risk involved for the patients, as the task of the recruited patients is to answer a survey (online and in clinics).

Inclusion Criteria:

• age > 18 years
• native Italian speakers
• wrist/hand pathology
• trauma (fractures, tendon injuries, etc.)
• chronic pathology, the pathology has been present for at least 1 month (tenosynovitis, chronic arthrosis pain, rheumatic hand or wrist disorders)
• in case of hand/wrist surgery: at least 4 weeks have elapsed since surgery to avoid that the patient could not perform certain actions evaluated by the scale, for example lifting a pan or shopping bags, due to normal post-operative precautions.
• full possession of mental capacity

Exclusion Criteria:

• age < 18 years
• non-native Italian speakers of Italian, thus also excluding second generation Swiss Italians ("secundo")
• mental incapacity
• upper limb in cast/locked by splint (criterion in Chung's article 98) at the time of the evaluation

Native Italian speaking patients followed by the Hand Therapy of the University Hospital Zürich and the Handtherapy Fairplay center of Bologna, IT, with a pathology of the hand/s and or wrist/s.

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are important clinical items for evaluating injuries and recovery of the hand. Some of the most used Questionnaires, unfortunately, are not available in Italian. This poses a problem when evaluating Italian speaking patients. Our aim is to develop a culturally adapted Italian version of the Michigan Hand Questionnaire. There is no risk involved for the patients, as the task of the recruited patients is to answer a survey (online and in clinics).