G Humphrey et al. J Pediatr 2024; 267: 113922. Open Access! Designing, Developing, and Validating a Set of Standardized Pictograms to Support Pediatric-Reported Gastroduodenal Symptoms
The authors attempted to develop useful pictograms to help enable standardization of symptom reporting in children with gastroduodenal disorders.
Key findings:
- Face and content validity were higher for the pediatric static and animated pictogram sets compared with pre-existing adult pictograms (78% vs 78% vs 61%).
- Participants with worse gastric symptoms had superior comprehension of the pediatric pictograms (χ2 [8, N = 118] P < .001)
- “Little significant comprehension was gained by having the animated pictograms.”
My take: Some research while worthwhile does not pan out. This is what I was thinking when I read this study. Upper GI symptoms are difficult to convey in pictures; in addition, some patients will have multiple overlapping symptoms. This is why the validity percentages are not higher. I don’t foresee using these pictograms in clinical practice.
Related blog post:
- Pictographic Constipation Action Plan The pictograms with this action plan are more helpful in my view
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