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Researchers find the Scoliosis Research Society-22 Score discriminative
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DALLAS — In a study presented at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting here, investigators established normative values for the Scoliosis Research Society-22 score questionnaire for adolescents between the ages of 10 years and 19 years old.
“We feel we have established a normative value to help guide our outcomes in adolescents,” Michael D. Daubs, MD, said. “Overall, females had lower mental scores than males. The pain scores lowered with increasing age from 10 to 19. Whites had increasing function scores than other races.”
Michael D. Daubs
Daubs said there have been few studies examining normal values in scoliosis in adolescents. In their study, the researchers wanted to establish normative values of Scoliosis Research Society-22 (SRS-22) scores. They categorized patients in the study into groups by gender and age, including a 10-year to 12-year old group, a 13-year to 15-year old group, and a 16-year to 19-year old group. The children completed the questionnaires in schools throughout Las Vegas, with the questions pertaining to race, ethnicity and age. In all, 3,052 students completed the questionnaires.
Researchers found that male children showed the most improved scores overall. Function and mental scores decreased with increasing age. Female children had lower mental scores than male children. Overall, white children showed higher function. There was no significant difference in pain score.
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“We do feel the SRS-22 is discriminative and does give us baselines to compare with a normal adolescent group,” Daubs said.
Reference:
Daubs MD. Paper #80. Presented at: North American Spine Society Annual Meeting. Oct. 24-27, 2012. Dallas.
Disclosure: Daubs receives royalties from and is a consultant for Synthes Spine, receives grants from Stryker Spine and receives fellowship support from AOSpine North America.
