TY - JOUR
AU - Melloh, Markus
AB - Eur Spine J (2017) 26:2007–2013 DOI 10.1007/s00586-017-5179-3 ORIGINAL ARTICLE The Oswestry Disability Index, confirmatory factor analysis in a sample of 35,263 verifies a one-factor structure but practicality issues remain 1 2 3 • • • Charles Philip Gabel Antonio Cuesta-Vargas Meihua Qian 4 5 6 7,8,9 • • • Rok Vengust Ulrich Berlemann Emin Aghayev Markus Melloh Received: 25 January 2017 / Revised: 15 April 2017 / Accepted: 6 June 2017 / Published online: 23 June 2017 Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2017 Abstract Results The EFA indicated a one-factor solution account- Purpose To analyze the factor structure of the Oswestry ing for 54% of the total variance. The CFA analysis based Disability Index (ODI) in a large symptomatic low back on the full sample confirmed this one-factor structure. Sub- pain (LBP) population using exploratory (EFA) and con- group analyses by gender achieved good model fit for firmatory factor analysis (CFA). configural and partial metric invariance, but not scalar Methods Analysis of pooled baseline ODI LBP patient invariance. A possible two-construct model solution as data from the international Spine Tango registry of outlined by previous researchers: dynamic-activities (per- EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe. The sample, sonal care, lifting, walking, sex 
TI - The Oswestry Disability Index, confirmatory factor analysis in a sample of 35,263 verifies a one-factor structure but practicality issues remain
JF - European Spine Journal
DO - 10.1007/s00586-017-5179-3
DA - 2017-06-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-oswestry-disability-index-confirmatory-factor-analysis-in-a-sample-5YrGjeSUSi
SP - 2007
EP - 2013
VL - 26
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -