Rating Scales: Numeric Values May Change the Meaning of Scale Labels

Measuring Adolescent Individual Values with Rating and Constant-sum Scales

The rapid extraction of numeric meaning

Several kinds of statistical properties can be rapidly extracted from visual displays (e.g., luminance and roughness, Olive, A., & Torralba, A. (2001). Modeling the shape of the scene: a holistic representation of the spatial envelope. International Journal of Computational Vision, 42, 145-175). Here, we investigate whether this phenomenon extends to meaning contained in Arabic numerals. Observ...

Correspondence of verbal descriptor and numeric rating scales for pain intensity: an item response theory calibration.

BACKGROUND Assessing pain intensity in older adults is critical and challenging. There is debate about the most effective way to ask older adults to describe their pain severity, and clinicians vary in their preferred approaches, making comparison of pain intensity scores across settings difficult. METHODS A total of 3,676 residents from 71 community nursing homes across eight states were ask...

validation of a new “objective pain score” vs. “numeric rating scale” for the evaluation of acute pain: a comparative study

conclusions the ops is a good stand-alone pain score and is better than the nrs for defining mild and moderate pain. it may even be used to supplement nrs when it is indicative of mild or moderate pain. patient and methods a total of 1021 paired readings of the ops and nrs of 93 patients who underwent laparotomy and used patient-controlled analgesia were evaluated. acute pain service (aps) pers...

Rating depression over brief time intervals with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale: standard vs. abbreviated scales.

Although antidepressant trials typically use weekly ratings to examine changes in symptoms over six to 12 weeks, antidepressant treatments may improve symptoms more quickly. Thus, rating scales must be adapted to capture changes over shorter intervals. We examined the use of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) to evaluate more rapid changes. Data were examined from 58 patients w...