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Dear Paul I work on a chronic pain management programme and have just set up a cognitive behavioural, paced exercise group for low distressed patients (acute, sub-acute or chronic) with low back pain . I am getting all out-patient physios to use Linton S and Hallden K (1996 Risk factors and the natural course of acute and recurrent musculoskeletal pain: developing a screening instrument. Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Pain) - to identify people at risk. I am also using Roland Morris (quick and easy to administer and score and no "threatening" questions eg is your sex life affected!) and self-efficacy questionnaire - (1988 Pain management centre, St Thomas' Hospital, London) good at predicting outcome and sensitive for measuring patients ability to cope with functional activities - despite their pain - very important! After my first 6 months audit on the programme, I would like to look at readministering the Linton and Hallden as an outcome measure - as there are some useful questions in it! Hope this is helpful Linda Devon UK ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Enthoven To: Physio Sent: 11 July 2000 17:03 Subject: follow up questionnaires Dear List We are interested in following patients who seek help in primary health care because of back pain problems. Which instrument is best to follow changes in disability over time for this kind of patients? Thank you for your reaction Paul Enthoven Department of Neuroscience and Locomotion: Div of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköpings Universitet SE-581 85 Linköping tel +46 13 221792 fax +46 13 221706