A study of the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Nociception Coma Scale–Revised

[en] Objective: The aim of the study was to check on the reliability and validity of the translated version of Nociception Coma Scale–Revised. Design: Prospective psychometric study. Setting: Rehabilitation and neurology unit in hospital. Subjects: Patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness. Interventions: None. Main measures: The original English version of the Nociception Coma Scale–Revised was translated into Chinese. The reliability and validity were undertaken by trained raters. Intraclass correlation coefficients were used to assess inter-rater reliability and test–retest reliability. Cronbach’s alpha test was used to investigate internal consistency. Spearman’s correlation was used to calculate concurrent validity. The Coma Recovery Scale–revised was used to assess the consciousness of patients. Results: Eighty-four patients were enrolled in the study. Inter-rater reliability of the Chinese version of Nociception Coma Scale–Revised was high for total scores and motor and verbal subscores and good for facial subscores. Test–retest reliability was high for total score and for all subscores. Analysis revealed a moderate internal consistency for subscores. For the concurrent validity, a strong correlation was found between the Nociception Coma Scale–Revised and the Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, and Consolability behavioral scale for all patients. A moderate correlation was found between the Nociception Coma Scale–Revised and the Coma Recovery Scale–revised scores for all patients. Conclusion: The Chinese version of Nociception Coma Scale–Revised has good reliability and validity data for assessing responses to pain in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness. © The Author(s) 2020.

Research Center/Unit :

CHU de Liège-Centre du Cerveau² - ULiège

Disciplines :

Neurology

Author, co-author :

Wang, J.; International Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China, Chindee Brain Science Institutes, Shanghai, China

Di, H.; International Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Hua, W.; International Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Cheng, L.; International Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Xia, Z.; International Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Hu, Z.; International Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Huang, W.; International Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome and Consciousness Science Institute, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Chatelle, Camille ; GIGA, GIGA-Consciousness, Coma Science Group

Laureys, Steven ; Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA Consciousness-Coma Science Group

Language :

English

Title :

A study of the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Nociception Coma Scale–Revised

Publication date :

2020

Journal title :

Clinical Rehabilitation

ISSN :

0269-2155

eISSN :

1477-0873

Publisher :

SAGE Publications Ltd

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

1112-1121

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

European Projects :

H2020 - 785907 - HBP SGA2 - Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 2

Funders :

NSCF - National Natural Science Foundation of China
EU - European Union
FRB - King Baudouin Foundation
EC - European Commission

Funding text :

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 81920108023 and 81471100; Hanghzou Normal University under Grant 2018PYXML007; the College students in Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Innovation Activities plan under Grant 2017R423055; Zhejiang Basic Public Interest Research Program Project under Grant LGF20H090017; the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation under the Specific Grant Agreement (Human Brain Project SGA2, 785907), the fund Generet, the King Baudouin Foundation, and the DOCMA project under Grant EU-H2020-MSCA-RISE-778234.

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