The pain attitudes and beliefs scale for physiotherapists: psychometric properties of the Croatian version.

This study aims to create a Croatian version of the PABS-PT questionnaire and determine the psychometric properties. This study is a cross-sectional survey of Croatian physiotherapists. The Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physiotherapists is a questionnaire that includes 36 items. Only physiotherapists working with patients suffering from low back pain and who have been working for at least 1 year in the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy participated in the study. The Factor and Cronbach's alpha analyses were performed to determine the factor structure and internal consistency. A total of 203 physiotherapists (response rate 69.52%) completed the PABS-PT-CRO. The analysis reveals two factors, i.e. a biomedical and biopsychosocial treatment orientation. The two-factor structure explained 25.8% of the total variance, with factor 1 contributing 17.8% and factor 2 contributing 8%. Thirty-six items were reduced to fifteen, with ten items loading on factor 1 and five on factor 2. Cronbach's alpha was 0.762 for factor 1 (biomedical scale) and 0.666 for factor 2 (biopsychosocial scale). The Croatian version of the PABS-PT appears to be equivalent to the original Dutch version and indicates a similar internal consistency. The questionnaire is valuable and necessary in clinical work for physiotherapists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]