The Metric Properties of Adverbs

Borg, Gunnar; Hosman, Jan

doi:10.1037/e611772010-001

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“…The subjects were free to select fractions if considered appropriate. The Borg scale (0-10) was used for the following reasons: I) the scale is based on quantitative semantics familiar to everyone, and is easy to use [16][17][18]; 2) the tagging of the descriptive terms to numbers from 0-1 0 confers on the numbers absolute and ratio properties, and allows the use of conventional statistics [6,19,20]; and 3) the scale has proved to be reliable and successful in our hands in answering questions about sensory phenomena, such as the one addressed [15, [21][22][23][24]. The technique is not absolutely precise or reliable in all subjects, but in large numbers of subjects positive and negative rating biases are generally balanced, and it is sufficiently precise and reliable to identify and to reject factors contributing to dyspnoea.…”

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Factors contributing to dyspnoea during bronchoconstriction and exercise in asthmatic subjects

Killian¹,

Summers²,

Watson³

et al. 1993

Eur Respir J

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The purpose of the present study was to identify: 1) whether dyspnoea during bronchoconstriction and exercise is related, in asthmatic subjects; and 2) to what extent baseline pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength contribute to dyspnoea under both conditions. One hundred and seventy five consecutive subjects, referred with suspected asthma, rated the intensity of dyspnoea (Borg scale 0-10): 1) during the administration of doubling concentrations of methacholine to 32 mg.ml-1 methacholine, or until the baseline forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) was reduced by 20%; and 2) during incremental cycle ergometry (100 kpm.min-1 each minute) to maximal capacity. 138/175 subjects achieved a 20% reduction in their baseline FEV1; 18 of the 138 were excluded, 2 children and 16 with complicating pulmonary disorders (diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) and/or total lung capacity (TLC) < 70% predicted). The remaining 120 out of 175 constituted the study population. Dyspnoea following a 20% reduction in the baseline FEV1 (Dys20%) was linearly interpolated, using the rating of dyspnoea and the FEV1 at the two final concentrations of methacholine. In the 120 asthmatic subjects, the mean intensity of dyspnoea was "moderate" (2.9, SD 1.91; Borg 0-10) and the intensity across subjects was not significantly related to baseline FEV1, vital capacity (VC), FEV1/VC, DLCO, TLC and maximal static inspiratory pressure (MIP), alone or in combination.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Factors contributing to dyspnoea during bronchoconstriction and exercise in asthmatic subjects

Killian¹,

Summers²,

Watson³

et al. 1993

Eur Respir J

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“…In describing sensory intensity in everyday life, simple descriptive terms are used, such as "slight", "moderate", "severe" etc. Borg surmised that if descriptive terms indicating perceptual magnitude were tagged to numbers, the individuals might use the numbers in a manner different from a scale in which the numbers were used on their own [4,7,8]. Thus the problems he addressed were: ft.rstly, what locality do the descriptors occupy in the range from zero to maximum, and secondly, what are the ratio properties of these descriptive terms.…”

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