PMID: 9551755Apr 29, 1998Paper

Subjective scoring of cough in children: parent-completed vs child-completed diary cards vs an objective method

The European Respiratory Journal
A B ChangC F Robertson

Abstract

Cough is often used as an outcome measure, although the reporting of cough is unreliable. Using a 24 h ambulatory cough meter to measure cough frequency, the aim of this study was to compare: 1) the correlation of child-completed diary cards to the objective measurement, with that of parent-completed diary cards; and 2) the visual analogue scale (VAS) to the verbal category descriptive (VCD) score. The cough meter consisted of a previously validated Holter monitor and a cough processor. Eighty four children (39 with recurrent cough and 45 controls, aged 6-17 yrs) used a cough meter at least once. Thirty three subjects used the cough meter twice. Parents and children completed separate diary cards using the VAS and VCD scores. The strength of the relationship between the subjective scores and the objective recordings was analysed by spearman's rank correlation coefficient. For daytime cough, child-completed diary cards and the VCD correlated better to the objective measurement than parent-completed diary cards and the VAS, respectively. In subjects that used the cough meter twice, the difference between the cough frequency correlated to the difference in the subjective scores. The confidence intervals for the correlation coeffic...Continue Reading

Citations

Jul 16, 1999·Pediatric Pulmonology·A B Chang
Feb 17, 2001·Pediatric Pulmonology·S G Campanella, M I Asher
Oct 3, 2002·Pediatric Pulmonology·Refika HamutcuAndrew Bush
Jul 27, 2007·Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology : Official Publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology·Marcos RibeiroClystenes Odyr Soares Silva
May 1, 2001·Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health·A B ChangS M Sawyer
Mar 5, 2009·The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal·Anne B ChangTheo P Sloots
Feb 12, 2009·Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health·Helen L PetskyAnne B Chang
Mar 29, 2002·Archives of Disease in Childhood·A B ChangP G Gibson
Dec 24, 2002·Archives of Disease in Childhood·A B ChangS M Sawyer
Oct 31, 2003·Thorax·J C de Jongste, M D Shields
Aug 1, 2006·Thorax·M D Shields
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Oct 6, 2001·American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine·P G GibsonM J Hensley
Jan 11, 2005·Respiratory Research·Anne Bernadette ChangIan Brent Masters
Mar 1, 2006·BMC Pediatrics·Anne B ChangPeter J Lewindon
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