Toward an Improved Scale for Assessing Symptom Severity in Children With Acute Otitis Media | Zendy

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Toward an Improved Scale for Assessing Symptom Severity in Children With Acute Otitis Media

Author(s) -

Nader Shaikh,

Alejandro Hoberman,

Howard E. Rockette,

Marcia KursLasky,

Jack L. Paradise

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

journal of the pediatric infectious diseases society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.269

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2048-7207

pISSN - 2048-7193

DOI - 10.1093/jpids/piu062

Subject(s) - medicine , acute otitis media , construct validity , scale (ratio) , otitis , construct (python library) , longitudinal study , predictive validity , clinical psychology , psychometrics , audiology , surgery , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language

The objective of the present study was to determine whether changes in the previously developed 7-item Acute Otitis Media Severity of Symptoms scale could improve its responsiveness and its longitudinal construct validity. The items "diminished activity" and "diminished appetite" had low or borderline levels of responsiveness and longitudinal construct validity. Dropping these items seems to be potentially advantageous.

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