VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME QUESTIONNAIRE IN INDONESIAN VERSION TO OBSERVE CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME INCIDENCE IN DENTIST Indrani Sulistyowati1- Annisaa Putri Ariyani2,*- Wita Anggraini3- Boedi Oetomo Roeslan4
1,2,3 Anatomy Subdivision, Oral Biology Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Trisakti, West Jakarta, Indonesia 11410
4 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Subdivision, Oral Biology Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Universitas Trisakti, West Jakarta, Indonesia 11410
*Corresponding author
Abstract
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) has been identified as a work-related condition and has been found to be significantly more prevalent in individuals who use hand instruments that produce vibrating impacts and require repetitive motion and heavy force, such as dentists. CTS might be assessed subjectively and objectively using the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) Questionnaire and the Phalen test, respectively. Since the present study was conducted in Indonesia, we intended to construct an Indonesian version of the CTS questionnaire and then analyze whether this questionnaire could be used as a subjective measurement tool. The CTS questionnaire was obtained from sixty-five respondents working as dentist. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were further analyzed using Corrected Item-Total Correlation and Cronbach^s alpha tests, respectively, using IBM SPSS. The validity of each item was in the range of 0.321 (min) to 0.895 (max), while the reliability of the questionnaire was 0.901. The present study found that the CTS questionnaire has satisfactory psychometric properties, including adequate validity and reliability.
