Table 1.

Measures of health outcome, back pain beliefs and psychological profile

Measure	Authors	Items	Initial	1/12	3/12	12/12
SF-36 health survey	Ware & Sherbourne [43]	36	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
EuroQol	EuroQol Group [59]	6	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire	Roland & Morris [41] Patrick et al. [47]	24 + 4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire	Waddell et al. [51]	4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Back Beliefs Questionnaire	Symonds et al. [64]	9	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Modified Von Korff	Von Korff et al. [48] Underwood et al. [49]	6	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
'Troublesomeness' etc	Deyo [65]	6	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Specific health transition	Beurskens et al. [50]	1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DRAM	Main et al. [56]	36	Yes	No	No	No