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The aim of this study was to report the preliminary validation results for the Pain Rehabilitation Expectations Scale (PRES).
The PRES is a clinical tool
developed to measure the expectations about rehabilitation treatment and outcome
for people with back pain. Fifty people with chronic back pain were recruited
from 11 physiotherapy outpatient clinics in Hong Kong for this study. Multitrait
scaling analysis indicated that the three subscales of the PRES (working
alliance, proxy efficacy, and motivation/expectation) were internally consistent,
with Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficients ranging from 0.93 to 0.96. Proxy
efficacy was found to be related to working alliance, and working alliance was
positively related to client motivation and expectations. The preliminary
psychometric analysis results suggested that the PRES could potentially be used
to measure chronic pain patients' expectations about pain rehabilitation
treatments. However, this study is based on a very small sample size;
psychometric validation of the PRES with a larger sample of chronic pain patients to confirm the measurement structure of the PRES using confirmatory factor
analysis is warranted.

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