Background

Physical activity (PA) shows many benefits for mental health. Mental health professionals play an important role in recommending PA to their patients. There is little research on PA recommendation behaviour in German mental health professionals. Aim of this study was to translate the Exercise in Mental Illness Questionnaire (EMIQ-HP) to German and test the psychometric properties of the translated version.

Methods

We translated the questionnaire following the guidelines on the cross-cultural adaption of self-rating questionnaires and tested its 7-day test-retest reliability in a sample of 40 German mental health professionals using Intra-Class-Correlations (ICC) and Cohen's kappa (κ).

Results

The German version of the questionnaire (EMIQ-G) can be found in supplement 1. The items and scales showed ICCs between 0.58 and 1.00 and κ between 0.35 and 1.00 while the vast majority showed excellent to almost perfect 7-day-retest reliability (>0.81).

Conclusion

The EMIQ-G represents the first standardized German questionnaire for the assessment of mental health professionals view on PA in mental disorders. Its use in future research might help to generate further knowledge that might help to support patients with mental disorders to increase or maintain a health beneficial level of PA.

中文翻译：

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心理疾病练习问卷（EMIQ-G）的德语版：心理计量学特性的翻译和测试

背景

体育锻炼（PA）对精神健康有许多好处。精神卫生专业人员在向患者推荐PA方面起着重要作用。德国精神卫生专业人员对PA推荐行为的研究很少。这项研究的目的是将“心理疾病锻炼问卷”（EMIQ-HP）翻译成德语，并测试翻译版本的心理测量特性。

方法

我们按照自评问卷的跨文化适应性准则对问卷进行了翻译，并使用类内相关（ICC）和Cohen的kappa（40位）在40名德国心理健康专业人员的样本中测试了7天重测信度。 κ）。

结果

补充说明1中有德文版的问卷（EMIQ-G）。项目和量表显示的ICC在0.58到1.00之间，κ在0.35到1.00之间，而绝大多数则表现出极好的至几乎完美的7天重测可靠性（ > 0.81）。

结论

EMIQ-G代表第一份标准化的德国问卷，用于评估精神卫生专业人员对精神障碍中PA的看法。它在未来的研究中的使用可能有助于产生更多的知识，这些知识可能有助于支持精神障碍患者增加或维持对健康有益的PA水平。