Interrater reliability of motor severity scales for hemifacial spasm

Ha Yeon Lee, Ingyun Park, Minnie P. Luu, Jerry Zhao, Jeanne P. Vu, Elizabeth Cisneros, Brian D. Berman, H. A. Jinnah, Han Joon Kim, Catherine Y. Liu, Joel S. Perlmutter, Sarah Pirio Richardson, Anne Weissbach, Glenn T. Stebbins, David A. Peterson

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Abstract

To compare the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of five clinical rating scales for video-based assessment of hemifacial spasm (HFS) motor severity. We evaluated the video recordings of 45 HFS participants recruited through the Dystonia Coalition. In Round 1, six clinicians with expertise in HFS assessed the participants’ motor severity with five scales used to measure motor severity of HFS: the Jankovic rating scale (JRS), Hemifacial Spasm Grading Scale (HSGS), Samsung Medical Center (SMC) grading system for severity of HFS spasms (Lee’s scale), clinical grading of spasm intensity (Chen’s scale), and a modified version of the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (Tunc’s scale). In Round 2, clinicians rated the same cohort with simplified scale wording after consensus training. For each round, we evaluated the IRR using the intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC (2,1) single-rater, absolute-agreement, 2-way random model]. The scales exhibited IRR that ranged from “poor” to “moderate”; the mean ICCs were 0.41, 0.43, 0.47, 0.43, and 0.65 for the JRS, HSGS, Lee’s, Chen’s, and Tunc’s scales, respectively, for Round 1. In Round 2, the corresponding IRRs increased to 0.63, 0.60, 0.59, 0.53, and 0.71. In both rounds, Tunc’s scale exhibited the highest IRR. For clinical assessments of HFS motor severity based on video observations, we recommend using Tunc’s scale because of its comparative reliability and because clinicians interpret the scale easily without modifications or the need for consensus training.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1269-1279
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Neural Transmission
Volume130
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2023

Keywords

  • Hemifacial spasm
  • Interrater reliability
  • Severity rating scale

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