The validation of the visual analogue scale for patient satisfaction after total hip arthroplasty
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- Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
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- Candidate signal: ObservationalConsensus signal: Observational
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- Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
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- 0.134
- Threshold uncertainty score
- 0.315
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Patient satisfaction becomes more important in our modern health care system. The assessment of satisfaction is difficult because it is a multifactorial item for which no golden standard exists. One of the potential methods of measuring satisfaction is by using the well-known visual analogue scale (VAS). In this study, we validated VAS for satisfaction. PATIENT AND METHODS: In this prospective study, we studied 147 patients (153 hips). The construct validity was measured using the Spearman correlation test that compares the satisfaction VAS with the Harris hip score, pain VAS at rest and during activity, Oxford hip score, Short Form 36 and Western Ontario McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index. The reliability was tested using the intra-class coefficient. RESULTS: The Pearson correlation test showed correlations in the range of 0.40-0.80. The satisfaction VAS had a high correlation between the pain VAS and Oxford hip score, which could mean that pain is one of the most important factors in patient satisfaction. The intra-class coefficient was 0.95. CONCLUSIONS: There is a moderate to mark degree of correlation between the satisfaction VAS and the currently available subjective and objective scoring systems. The intra-class coefficient of 0.95 indicates an excellent test-retest reliability. The VAS satisfaction is a simple instrument to quantify the satisfaction of a patient after total hip arthroplasty. In this study, we showed that the satisfaction VAS has a good validity and reliability.
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The record
- Venue
- European Orthopaedics and Traumatology
- Topic
- Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- not available
- Funders
- not available
- Keywords
- Visual analogue scalePhysical therapyPatient satisfactionMedicineReliability (semiconductor)Construct validityValidityArthroplastyTest (biology)Sports medicineCriterion validityPhysical medicine and rehabilitationSurgeryPsychometricsClinical psychology
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes