The SMAC checklist

General

The Self-management Adherence and Competence (SMAC) checklist is a fidelity checklist to evaluate the administration of complex treatments such as the GLA:D BACK programme.

User guide

The SMAC checklist user guide contain general information about the development and structure, scoring and how to use the checklist.

SMAC user guide → a guide is described in the SMACK checklist.

Terms and conditions

Licence

The SMAC checklist may be used free of charge for non-commercial clinical or scientific purposes, provided it is applied as described in the original development and validation article and the user guide. The checklist may not be modified, edited, shortened, expanded, translated, or otherwise altered without prior written permission from the copyright holder, and all uses must cite the original publication(s) appropriately.

Definition of commercial use

Any use that is primarily intended for, or results in, direct or indirect financial gain or competitive advantage. Examples include:

Incorporating the questionnaire into software, apps, books, courses, devices or other products that are sold, licensed or subscription-based.
Use by private clinics or other health-care providers when administration of the questionnaire is billed to patients, insurers or sponsors.
Use by contract research organisations, pharmaceutical or med-tech companies, or other for-profit entities in sponsored studies, product development or marketing.
Redistribution, translation, adaptation or modification of the questionnaire for sale or licensing.

Permitted non-commercial use (illustrative)

Publicly funded or grant-funded academic research.
Routine use in publicly financed health care where no separate fee is charged for the checklist.
Teaching and training in universities or other non-profit educational settings.

For any intended commercial use, or if in doubt, please contact the copyright holder to obtain a commercial licence.

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the SMAC checklist

If you wish to translate and cross-culturally adapt the SMAC checklist into another language, please send a request to Bibi Dige Heiberg on e-mail: bheiberg@health.sdu.dk. Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the PATH uses the English version (see below) and must follow the guidelines outlined by Beaton et al. → abstract.

SMAC checklist forward translation →
SMAC checklist forward translation – synthesis →
SMAC checklist backward translation →
SMAC checklist backward translation – synthesis →

SMAC checklist v. 1.0 Danish version →

This is the Danish version of the SMAC checklist which is currently being updated to version 2.0. The checklist has been developed and will be further tested in a Danish setting of patients with with back pain enrolled in the GLA:D BACK programme.

Heiberg BD et al. The GLA:D BACK self-management adherence and competence checklist (SMAC Checklist)—Development, content validity and feasibility → open access article

SMAC checklist v. 1.0 English version → under development

This is the English version of the SMAC checklist. It has been translated and cross-culturally adapted into English using the first 3 phases of the method described by Beaton et al. (2000).