Coping Strategies Questionnaire Csq Pdf

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Tool Description

  • Developed to measure coping after a sudden onset SCI.
  • Made up of three domains:
    1) Acceptance of Injury
    2) Social Reliance
    3) Fighting Spirit.
    The acceptance domain measures the extent of reevaluation of life values, fighting spirit domain measures efforts to behave independently, and the social reliance domain measures the tendency towards depended behavior.
  1. The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ), a measure of coping in chronic pain patients, was subjected to item-level exploratory factor analysis. Subjects: A sample of 965 chronic pain patients were used in the analysis.
  2. The Spinal Cord Lesion-related Coping Strategies Questionnaire (SCL-CSQ) is a self-report scale developed to assess coping efforts after a sudden onset SCI.

ICF Domain:

The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) (Rosenstiel and Keefe 1983) is the most widely used measure of pain coping strategies.To date, with one exception (Tuttle et al. 1991), studies examining the factor structure of the CSQ have used the composite scores of its 8 a-priori theoretically derived scales rather than the 48 individual items.

Body Function – Subcategory: General Functions

Number of Items:

12

Brief Instructions for Administration & Scoring

Coping strategies questionnaire csq pdf online

Administration:

  • Self-report scale; can be completed in hard copy, online or over the telephone.
  • Participants are asked to answer each question on a 4-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = agree, 4 = strongly agree).

Equipment: None.

Scoring:

  • Domain scores are summed and then averaged. Scores range between 1 and 4 for each domain.

Interpretability

MCID: not established in SCI
SEM: not established in SCI
MDC: not established in SCI

  • Higher scores indicate greater affirmation of the domain to coping.
  • No cut scores or norms for the SCI population have been reported at this time.
  • Published data for the SCI population is available for comparison (see Interpretability section of Study Details sheet).

Languages:

Swedish, English

Training Required:

None.

Availability:

See the ‘How-to use’ page of this tool.

Clinical Considerations

  • The results of the SCL CSQ are to be used to advise clinicians about specific coping mechanisms of acceptance, fighting spirit and social reliance. Coping strategies have been shown to be associated with emotional well-being. The SCL CSQ is a measure to assess coping efforts, rather than the outcomes of coping which is more typically measured, and may be a more pertinent tool to assess emotional well-being.
  • The scale was originally developed for the SCI population.
  • The SCL CSQ can be completed online, over the telephone or in person. It is short and simple to complete, and represents no significant burden to the respondent. The scale is simple to administer and score.

Measurement Property Summary

# of studies reporting psychometric properties: 2

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Reliability:

  • Internal consistency for the SCL-CSQ subscales is as follows:
    • Moderatefor the Acceptance subscale (Cronbach’s a=0.78-0.79)
    • Low to moderatefor the Fighting Spirit subscale (Cronbach’s a=0.68-0.72)
    • Low to moderatefor the Social Reliance subscale (Cronbach’s a=0.61-0.73).

[Elfstrom et al. 2002, Elfstrom et al. 2007]

Validity:

  • Correlation between SCL-CSQ subscales is low for:
    • Acceptance & Fighting Spirit (Pearson’s r=0.37)
    • Acceptance & Social Reliance (Pearson’s r=-0.14)
    • Fighting Spirit & Social Reliance (Pearson’s r=-0.13).
  • Correlations between the SCL-CSQ subscales Acceptance and Fighting Spirit are negative, as expected, with the HADS subscales Anxiety and Depression.
  • Correlation of the SCL-CSQ Acceptance subscale is moderate with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale subscales – Anxiety (Pearson’s r=-0.45) and Depression (Pearson’s r=-0.58).
  • Correlation of the SCL-CSQ Fighting Spirit subscale is moderate with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale subscales – Anxiety (Pearson’s r=-0.40) and Depression (Pearson’s r=-0.49).

[Elfstrom et al. 2002, Elfstrom et al. 2007]

Responsiveness:

No values were reported for the responsiveness of the SCL-CSQ for the SCI population.

Floor/ceiling effect:

No values were reported for the presence of floor/ceiling effects in the SCL-CSQ for the SCI population.

Reviewer

Dr. Vanessa Noonan, John Zhu, Jeremy Mak, Matthew Querée

Date Last Updated:

Feb 22, 2017

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SCL-CSQ:

Elfstrom, ML, Ryden A, Kreuter M, Persson L-O, Sullivan M. Linkages between coping and psychological outcome in the spinal cord lesioned: development of SCL-related measures. Spinal Cord, 2002; 40: 23-29.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11821966

Elfstrom ML, Kennedy P, Lude P, Taylor N. Condition-related coping strategies in persons with spinal cord injury: a cross-national validation of the Spinal Cord Lesion-related Coping Strategies Questionnaire in four community samples. Spinal Cord, 2007; 45: 420-428.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17179976

Migliorini CE, Elfstom ML, Tonge BJ. Translation and Australian validation of the spinal cord lesion-related coping strategies and emotional wellbeing questionnaires. Spinal Cord 2008:46;690-695.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18332886

Coping Strategies Inventory Short Form

Paker N, Bugdayci D, Kesiktas N, Sahin M, Elfström ML. Reliability and validity of the Turkish version of spinal cord lesion-related coping strategies. Spinal Cord. 2014;52(5):383-7.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24322215

Coping Strategies Questionnaire Csq Pdf Download

Saffari M, Pakpour AH, Yaghobidoot M, Al zaben F, Koenige HG. Cross-cultural adaptation of the spinal cord lesion-related coping strategies questionnaire for use in Iran. Injury. 2015;46(8):1539-44.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26003680

Coping Strategies Questionnaire-revised (csq-r) Pdf

Saurí J, Umaña MC, Chamarro A, Soler MD, Gilabert A, Elfström ML. Adaptation and validation of the Spanish version of the Spinal Cord Lesion-related Coping Strategies Questionnaire (SCL CSQ-S). Spinal Cord. 2014;52(11):842-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24777162