The majority of kindergarten children in our study could not complete a VAS accurately. Cognitive ability, combined with chronological age, was the best predictor of a child's accurate use of a VAS, as determined by logistic regression. Paediatric researchers may need to consider alternative rating scales to measure perceptions in children under 7 years of age.
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