Summary of the results of responsiveness statistics and assessment of discriminative ability
| Responsiveness | Discriminative ability | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRM | Effect size | Guyatt | Correlation method | AUC-ROC$ | ||||
| Physician | Parent | Physician | Parent | Physician | Parent | |||
| +++, Good; ++, moderate; +, small; –, poor. See text for threshold definitions. SRM, standardised response mean; AUC ROC, area under the curve receiver operating characteristic; LROM, limited range of motion; GASS, Global Articular Severity Score; CHAQ, Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire; CHQ, Child Health Questionnaire; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate. | ||||||||
| Physician’s global assessment | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ |
| Parent’s global assessment | + | + | ++ | ++ | – | – | ++ | +++ |
| Pain assessment | – | – | + | + | – | – | +++ | +++ |
| No. active joints | + | ++ | +++ | ++ | +++ | ++ | +++ | +++ |
| No. joints with swelling | + | ++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ |
| No. joints with pain/tenderness | + | + | ++ | ++ | – | – | +++ | +++ |
| No. joints with LROM | + | ++ | +++ | ++ | ++ | – | +++ | +++ |
| GASS | + | ++ | +++ | +++ | ++ | ++ | +++ | +++ |
| Morning stiffness | + | + | ++ | +++ | – | – | + | ++ |
| CHAQ disability index | + | – | + | + | – | – | + | ++ |
| CHQ physical score | – | – | + | + | – | – | ++ | +++ |
| CHQ psychosocial score | + | + | ++ | + | + | – | +++ | ++ |
| ESR | – | – | – | – | – | – | + | + |
| C-reactive protein | – | – | – | ++ | – | – | + | + |