The Keller Index of Nausea (KIN) - FOD Volksgezondheid ...

Author
(year)
Taylor, L. J. & Herr, K.
(2003)
Setting Sample
(n)
Recruitment took
place through Elder
Care Services, a
private non-profit
organization.
A convenience sample of 57
volunteers age 58 and older.
Seventy-seven percent (n = 44) of the
sample scored 24 or less on the
mental status exam, indicating some
degree of cognitive impairment.
The remaining 23% (n = 13) were
cognitively intact.
(n = 57)
Design Reliability Validity
Comparative study: Subjects were
instructed to recall a vividly
remembered pain and rate this
remembered pain using the FPS,
the VDS, the NRS and the Iowa
Pain Thermometer (IPT).
S CrV
Reliability: Stability (S), Internal consistency (IC), Equivalence (E)
Validity: Face validity (FV), Content validity (CtV), Criterion validity (CrV), Construct validity (CsV)
Sensitivity (Sen), Specificity (Sp), Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive Value (NPV), Receiver Operating Curve (ROC), Likelihood
Ratio (LR), Odds Ratio (OR)
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