Understandability, content validity, and overall acceptability of the Children's International Mucositis Evaluation Scale (ChIMES): child and parent reporting.
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.
Tomlinson
Deborah
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Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Room 424, 123 Edward Street, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1E2, Canada. Deborah.Tomlinson@sickkids.ca
Gibson
Faith
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Treister
Nathaniel
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Baggott
Christina
C
Judd
Peter
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Hendershot
Eleanor
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Maloney
Anne-Marie
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Doyle
John
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Feldman
Brian
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Kwong
Karis
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Sung
Lillian
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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*
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents