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A Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is one of the pain rating scales used for the first time in 1921 by Hayes and Patterson. It is often used in epidemiologic and clinical research to measure the intensity or frequency of various symptoms.
Watch the 1-minute tour. What is Visual Analog Scale (VAS)? Visual Analog Scale, also referred to as Visual "Analogue" Scale, is a psychometric scale that is generally used in pain scale surveys to understand varying degrees of pain experienced by a patient.
The visual analogue scale (VAS) has been used in the context of health and healthcare for various purposes, for example, to measure pain and to provide a single-index measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL).
A Visual Analog Scale is a method used in the social sciences to assess and report internal states. It involves placing a mark on a 100-mm line with opposite descriptors at each end to evaluate a symptom. This method offers advantages such as quick completion and low participant burden.
Paper-based visual analogue scale (VAS) items were developed 100 years ago. Although they gained great popularity in clinical and medical research for assessing pain, they have been scarcely applied in other areas of psychological research for several decades.
26 paź 2002 · Visual analogue scales are frequently used to assess and monitor self-report measures in adults and children, in particular fear and pain. The measures can be as simple as a horizontal line...
The aim of this article is to provide an overview of current practice in the analysis of VAS scores, to propose a method of analysis which avoids the shortcomings of more traditional approaches, and to provide best practice recommendations for the analysis of VAS scores.
