ÖREBRO MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN SCREENING QUESTIONNAIRE
ICF Category	Measurement of limitation in activities and participation - completing the daily routine; purposeful sensory experiences, specified as repetitive perception of non-injurious sensory stimuli; and interacting according to social rules Measurement of impairment of body function – pain in back; pain in lower limb; content of thought; and thought functions, specified as the tendency to elaborate physical symptoms for cognitive/ideational reasons
Description	The Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (OMPSQ) (also referred to as the Acute Low Back Pain Screening Questionnaire) was originally developed to assist primary care practitioners in identifying psychosocial “yellow-flags” and patients at risk for future work disability due to pain. The OMPSQ is a 25-item screening questionnaire (of which 21 are scored) that consists of items involving pain location (item 4), work absence due to pain (item 5), pain duration (item 6), pain intensity (items 8 and 9), control over pain (item 11), frequency of pain episodes (item 10), functional ability (items 20 through 24), mood (items 12 and 13), perceptions of work (items 7 and 16), patients estimate of prognosis (items 14 and 15), and fear-avoidance (items 17 through 19).194 The scored-items are summed to provide a total score potentially ranging from 0 to 210, with higher scores indicating a higher risk of poor outcome.
Measurement method	Self-report
Nature of variable	Continuous
Units of measurement	Individual items rated on a 0 to 10 scale
Measurement properties	The ability of the OMPSQ to predict long-term pain, disability, and sick leave has been supported in previous studies,202 including a systematic review of 7 publications (5 discrete datasets).156