\"ABC\" - the Awareness-Body-Chart: a New Tool Assessing Body Awareness

Background: Despite the importance of body awareness for health and well-being there is still a lack of valid assessment tools to scan proper body awareness. To respond to the limitations of questionnaires (reading/interpretation problems of subjects) the Awareness-Body-Chart (ABC) was designed to assess body awareness by colouring 51 regions according to their awareness. The objective of this study was to investigate the psychometric characteristics of the ABC.
Methods: In a questionnaire-study, 106 students in Graz (79 females, 27 males, age median 21 (IQR 20 - 23) years) filled in the ABC, furthermore a German body awareness questionnaire „KEKS\", and the Beck Depression Inventory II. Factor structure, internal consistency, and retest reliability of the ABC were investigated. Correlations of the ABC with the KEKS and the Beck Depression Inventory II and comparisons of subgroups were conducted.
Results: Through factor analyses, 14 factors with clear assignments to body parts could be...