title: Understandability, content validity, and overall acceptability of the Children's International Mucositis Evaluation Scale (ChIMES): child and parent reporting.
abstract: Mucositis assessment in children has primarily relied on assessment tools that have been developed for an adult population. A mucositis assessment scale for use in children has previously been developed from expert opinion, namely Children's International Mucositis Evaluation Scale (ChIMES). After the development of ChIMES, we aimed to evaluate the user perspective of the scale by testing the understandability, content validity, and overall acceptability of ChIMES working with parents, children, and teenagers as content experts. Overall acceptability of the scale was satisfactory; however, comments provided by the participants questioned several aspects of the initial version of ChIMES. After discussion of the results, a refined version of ChIMES was produced that accounts for the views of the target population.
authors: Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Room 424, 123 Edward Street, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1E2, Canada. Deborah.Tomlinson@sickkids.ca
authors: Deborah
authors: D
authors: Tomlinson
authors: Faith
authors: F
authors: Gibson
authors: Nathaniel
authors: N
authors: Treister
authors: Christina
authors: C
authors: Baggott
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Judd
authors: Eleanor
authors: E
authors: Hendershot
authors: Anne-Marie
authors: AM
authors: Maloney
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Doyle
authors: Brian
authors: B
authors: Feldman
authors: Karis
authors: K
authors: Kwong
authors: Lillian
authors: L
authors: Sung
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D010290:Parents; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013280:Stomatitis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents