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A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is a measurement instrument that tries to measure a characteristic or attitude that is believed to range across a continuum of values and cannot easily be directly measured. It is often used in epidemiologic and clinical research to measure the intensity or frequency of various symptoms. For example, the amount of pain that a patient feels ranges across a continuum from none to an extreme amount of pain. From the patient's perspective this spectrum appears continuous ± their pain does not take discrete jumps, as a categorization of none, mild, moderate and severe would suggest. It was to capture this idea of an underlying continuum that the VAS was devised. | A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is a measurement instrument that tries to measure a characteristic or attitude that is believed to range across a continuum of values and cannot easily be directly measured<ref name="cebp">D. Gould et al. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Journal of Clinical Nursing 2001; 10:697-706</ref>. It is often used in epidemiologic and clinical research to measure the intensity or frequency of various symptoms.<ref name="2">Dauphin AP et al. Bias and Precision in Visual Analogue Scales:A Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Epidemiology 1999; 150(10): 1117-1127</ref> For example, the amount of pain that a patient feels ranges across a continuum from none to an extreme amount of pain. From the patient's perspective this spectrum appears continuous ± their pain does not take discrete jumps, as a categorization of none, mild, moderate and severe would suggest. It was to capture this idea of an underlying continuum that the VAS was devised. | ||
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INTRODUCTION[edit | edit source]
A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is a measurement instrument that tries to measure a characteristic or attitude that is believed to range across a continuum of values and cannot easily be directly measured[1]. It is often used in epidemiologic and clinical research to measure the intensity or frequency of various symptoms.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name cannot be a simple integer. Use a descriptive title For example, the amount of pain that a patient feels ranges across a continuum from none to an extreme amount of pain. From the patient's perspective this spectrum appears continuous ± their pain does not take discrete jumps, as a categorization of none, mild, moderate and severe would suggest. It was to capture this idea of an underlying continuum that the VAS was devised.
STRUCTURE OF THE SCALE[edit | edit source]
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They are generally completed by patients themselves but are sometimes used to elicit opinions from health professionals.VAS are more sensitive to small changes than are simple descriptive ordinal scales in which symptoms are rated,for example, as mild or slight,moderate,or severe to agonizing.
REFERENCES[edit | edit source]
- ↑ D. Gould et al. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Journal of Clinical Nursing 2001; 10:697-706
