Journal des rapports de cas cliniques

The Italian Version of the Coma Recovery Scale for Pediatrics (CRS-P)

Abstract

Monica Beschi, Sandra Strazzer, Katia Colombo and Cristina Reverberi

Coma Recovery Scale for Pediatrics (CRS-P) is a modified version of Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R). This tool allows to analyse subjects’ behavioural responses and it also enables to diagnose Coma, Vegetative State, MCS and E-MCS in paediatrics. It is an ordinal scale, which counts 29 items divided in 6 subscales. CRS-R is a gold standard for the assessment of adults with DOC, and it’s also recommended for children, following the American guidelines. We undertook the translation and cultural adaptation of the CRS-P to have an adapted Italian version of this scale, to be tested on Italian children. To pursue the purpose of the project CRS-P was converted into Italian by two independent translators and was also culturally adapted. We found conceptual, semantic and content correspondence between the original version and the preliminary version of the instrument in Italian. The CRS-P version in the target language can be tested on Italian children, and then validated.