Sato Kazunori, Yabe Ichiro, Soma Hiroyuki, Yasui Kenichi, Ito Mizuki, Shimohata Takayoshi, Onodera Osamu, Nakashima Kenji, Sobue Gen, Nishizawa Masatoyo, Sasaki Hidenao
Neurology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
Brain Nerve. 2009 May;61(5):591-5.
The International Cooperative Ataxia Rating Scale (ICARS) is widely used as a scale for the assessment of the severity of cerebellar ataxia. However, this scale comprises several items; thus, making the application of this scale is not sufficiently practical to perform daily assessment of ataxic patients. A new rating scale--Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA)--was shown to provide highly reliable assessments; further, the scores on SARA correlated with the ICARS score and the Barthel index. After obtaining the permission, original SARA was translated into Japanese.
To examine the reliability and internal consistency of the Japanese version of the SARA for the assessment of cerebellar ataxia in 66 patients with spinocerebellar degeneration.
Intraclass coefficients (ICC) were observed to be greater than 0.8 except in the case of the inter-rater "finger chase" and "fast alternating hand movement" tests.
The Japanese version of SARA is highly reliable and very useful for the assessment of cerebellar ataxia on a daily basis.
国际合作共济失调评定量表（ICARS）被广泛用作评估小脑共济失调严重程度的量表。然而，该量表包含多个项目；因此，应用此量表进行共济失调患者的日常评估不够实用。一种新的评定量表——共济失调评估与评定量表（SARA）——已被证明能提供高度可靠的评估；此外，SARA评分与ICARS评分及巴氏指数相关。经许可后，将原版SARA翻译成了日语。
检验日语版SARA在评估66例脊髓小脑变性患者小脑共济失调方面的信度和内部一致性。
除评定者间“指鼻试验”和“快速轮替动作试验”外，组内相关系数（ICC）均大于0.8。
日语版SARA高度可靠，对小脑共济失调的日常评估非常有用。
