Construct validity of the Mini-BESTest in individuals with chronic pain in specialized pain care

Table 4 Convergent and Divergent validity (Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient) between the Mini-BESTest and other scales

	Mini-BESTest
	Total		Females		Males
Scale	r_s	p value	r_s	p value	r_s	p value
10MWT ^a – comfortable walking speed	0.72	≤ 0.001	0.71	≤ 0.001	0.73	≤ 0.001
10MWT – maximum walking speed	0.76	≤ 0.001	0.76	≤ 0.001	0.75	≤ 0.001
BPI pain intensity ^b	-0.22	0.004	-0.13	0.18	-0.35	0.01
TSK-11^c	-0.06	0.49	-0.11	0.29	-0.04	0.78
PCS-SW ^d	-0.05	0.52	-0.06	0.57	-0.07	0.60

Mini-BESTest = Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test. ^a10MWT = 10 m Walk Test. ^b BPI = Brief Pain Inventory, pain intensity composite score. ^c TSK-11 = Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia-11. ^d PCS-SW = Pain Catastrophizing Scale – Swedish version

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