PICTORIAL VISUAL ANALOG SCALE FOR RATING SEVERITY OF CHILDHOOD ASTHMA EPISODES

被引：14

作者：

FRITZ, G

SPIRITO, A

YEUNG, A

KLEIN, R

FREEDMAN, E

机构：

[1] Rhode Island Hospital/Brown, University School of Medicine, Providence, RI

[2] University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, Tyler, TX

[3] Brown University, Providence, RI

来源：

JOURNAL OF ASTHMA | 1994年 / 31卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.3109/02770909409089489

中图分类号：

R392 [医学免疫学];

学科分类号：

100102 ;

摘要：

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of pictorial anchors improved a visual analog scale (VAS) designed to assess asthma episodes. The sample consisted of 77 children with moderate to severe asthma attending a summer camp. They rated one of two VASs, either nonpictorial (39 subjects in year 1) or pictorial (38 subjects in year 2), three times a day for 2 weeks to report the severity of their asthma symptoms. Immediately after the subjects rated the VAS, pulmonary function testing was obtained. The mean VAS scores increased 64% using the pictorial VAS while the mean PEFRs in the 2 years were almost identical, suggesting that changes on the VAS were not due to differences in pulmonary functioning. For boys, the increase in individual mean VAS score in year 2 using the pictorial VAS was 44%; for girls, the increase in individual mean VAS scores was 112%. Use of a pictorial VAS increases the range of severity of symptoms reported by children with asthma. The instrument may be a useful tool in the systematic quantifiable assessment of subjective symptomatology in pediatric asthma.

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页码：473 / 478

页数：6

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