A validation study of the Brief Scale for Psychiatric problems in Orthopaedic Patients (BS-POP) for patients with chronic low back pain (verification of reliability, validity, and reproducibility)

The present findings indicate that the BS-POP possesses sufficient reliability regarding computational psychology. The BS-POP constitutes a tool enabling orthopaedists themselves to easily identify psychiatric problems in orthopaedic patients. Further study is required regarding responsiveness.