Initial Validation of a Numeric Zero to Ten Scale to Measure Children's State Anxiety

Abstract

This initial study supports the validity of the numeric 0-10 anxiety self-report scale to assess state anxiety in children as young as 7 yr.

Hypnosis Before Diagnostic or Therapeutic Medical Procedures:A Systematic Review

“…The first four were validated (Bringuier et al, 2009;Crandall, Lammers, Senders, Savedra, & Braun, 2007;Shacham, 1983;Spielberger, 1983). No validation data were found for one study (face rating scale) (Liossi & Hatira, 1999).…”

Validation of a clinically useful measure of children's state anxiety before medical procedures

“…Selfreported anxiety was significantly associated with self-reported pain (r = .72), but did not correlate with nurse ratings of child anxiety or the CAMPIS-R, which was completed by trained observers (Cohen et al, 2004). Crandall, Lammers, Senders, Savedra, and Braun (2007) designed a horizontal 10-point VAS to assess children's state anxiety and performed initial validation with 60 children, 7-13 years old, having tonsillectomies. Scores on the scale were significantly associated (p < .001) with the state scale of the STAI-C (Crandall et al, 2007).…”

“…Crandall, Lammers, Senders, Savedra, and Braun () designed a horizontal 10‐point VAS to assess children's state anxiety and performed initial validation with 60 children, 7–13 years old, having tonsillectomies. Scores on the scale were significantly associated ( p < .001) with the state scale of the STAI‐C (Crandall et al., ).…”

Children's pre-operative tonsillectomy pain education: Clinical outcomes

“…Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of pre-operative tonsillectomy pain education, with input from children, on the following: (1) children's pre-operative anxiety and (2) post-operative subjective experiences including anxiety, pain intensity, quality of pain and sleep, oral intake, perceptions of pre-operative pain education, and pain expectations. A component of this study, an initial validation of a children's self-report numeric anxiety scale is previously reported [23].…”