Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score - Child
Introduction[edit | edit source]
The knee injury osteoarthritis score (KOOS) is an adult outcome measure used for assessing the patients perspectives of their knee pain and disability. This tool was developed initially to use on adults, which you can read about in more detail on this page. The KOOS pschometric properties has shown highly reliability, validity, and is responsive to change in subjects with knee degeneration or knee injury.[1]
The KOOS - Child has 5 sections with 39 questions in total. These catagories are split into:
- Knee Problems
- How Painful
- Difficulty during daily activities
- Difficulty during sport and playing
- How has your injury affected your life
Within these catagories there are:
- 7 questions on symptoms
- 8 questions on pain
- 11 questions on activities
- 7 questions on sports and play, and
- 6 questions on quality of life
Development[edit | edit source]
It was highlighted that later developed to meet the needs of the paediatric knee, KOOS - Child, as it was identified that there were not child specific outcome measures for knee conditions and adult outcome measures were being used.
Pschometric Properties
Uses
Scoring
Resources
References
- ↑ Roos E M, Roos H P, Ekdahl C, Lohmander L S. Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)—validation of a Swedish version. Scandinavian Journal of Medical Science and Sports 1998; 8:439-48.
