The PedsQL™ Present Functioning Visual Analogue Scales: preliminary reliability and validity

Sherman, Stanley W; Eisen, Sarajane L.; Burwinkle, Tasha M.; Varni, James W.

doi:10.1186/1477-7525-4-75

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“…Third, to bolster recruitment and retention among patients who were eager to leave clinic rather than stay to participate in a time-consuming study, we used the brief VAS instruments rather than longer questionnaires that may have greater sensitivity for detecting subtle differences. On the other hand, VAS correlates well with longer instruments for pain and quality of life in pediatric patients (34). Future studies may increase their power to detect an impact on subjective well-being by including patients who report more distress at baseline and older patients who are able to report their own subjective states rather than relying on parental proxy.…”

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Impact of Music on Pediatric Oncology Outpatients

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Music is widely used to enhance well-being. We wished to assess music’s effect on pediatric oncology outpatients. Patients who had leukemia and were in maintenance or consolidation outpatient treatment served as their own control at two visits. At visit 1, children rested for 20 min; at visit 2, for 20 min they listened to music designed to increase vitality and improve heart rate variability (HRV). At both visits, parents completed before and after treatment visual analog scales (VAS) of their child’s relaxation, well-being, vitality, anxiety, stress, and depression; patients’ heart rates were monitored during treatments to calculate HRV. The 47 patients with complete VAS data and 34 patients with usable HRV data were similar. At baseline, VAS scores for negative states were low (average <2.5 of 10) and positive states were high (average 7> of 10). Relaxation improved more with music than rest (p < 0.01). The HRV parasympathetic parameter was significantly lower with music than rest. No other differences were significant. Further studies are needed to better delineate the relationship between subjective and objective measures of well-being among patients who are not in severe distress.

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Impact of Music on Pediatric Oncology Outpatients

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“…The scale has six faces representing pain intensity ranging from 0 (smiling face/not hurting) to 5 (crying face/hurts the worst). To assess patients' acute fatigue and emotional distress we used the Present Functioning Visual Analogue Scales (PedsQL™ VAS) (Sherman et al 2006). The instrument includes 6 items (fear, sadness, anger, worry, fatigue, discomfort), each with visual analog scales of 0-100 mm (0 = not feeling the target emotion; 100 = feeling the emotion very strongly).…”

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“…To compute emotional distress, we average of responses to the fear, sadness, anger, and worry items (Sherman et al 2006). Finally, positive affect and arousal were assessed using the Self-Assessment Mannequin (SAM) scales (Bradley and Lang 1994).…”

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The Effects of Hospital Clowning on Physical and Emotional States of Pediatric Patients During Chemotherapy Treatment

Arriaga

Melo

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2019

Child Youth Care Forum

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“…The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was widely used as the preferred way to evaluate various parameters, such as pain and quality of life due to its easy reproducibility and validity. 16 …”

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The effects of laser treatment in tendinopathy: a systematic review

Júnior

2015

Acta ortop. bras.

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Tendons have as main function transmit forces from the muscle to the bones. Tendinopathy is an inflammatory process that occurs in and around the tendon, when these are affected by some injury. Low level laser therapy consists in a local application of a monochromatic, coherent and short wavelength light. Its use began in 60's and since then several benefits for tendon injuries have been reported. The objective of this study is to collect the most recent studies about the use of laser on the tendinopathy treatment. We performed searches on the following electronic databases PubMed, Medline, CAPES journals portal and LILACS. After the analysis, we selected three articles that showed that the use of low-level laser therapy, compared to placebo, is effective in treatment of tendinopathy. Despite the need for more studies about this theme, the low-level laser therapy demonstrates consistent results in the treatment of tendinopathy.

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The PedsQL™ Present Functioning Visual Analogue Scales: preliminary reliability and validity

Cited by 78 publications

References 55 publications

Impact of Music on Pediatric Oncology Outpatients

Impact of Music on Pediatric Oncology Outpatients

The Effects of Hospital Clowning on Physical and Emotional States of Pediatric Patients During Chemotherapy Treatment

The effects of laser treatment in tendinopathy: a systematic review

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