Moura Raissa Gomes Fonseca, Cunha Daniele Andrade, Gomes Ana Carolina de Lima Gusmão, Silva Hilton Justino da
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Codas. 2014 Jan-Feb;26(1):96-101. doi: 10.1590/s2317-17822014000100014.
To systematically gather from the literature available the quantitative instruments used to assess the sense of smell in studies carried out with children.
The present study included a survey in the Pubmed and Bireme platforms and in the databases of MedLine, Lilacs, regional SciELO and Web of Science, followed by selection and critical analysis of the articles found and chosen.
We selected original articles related to the topic in question, conducted only with children in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. We excluded studies addressing other phases of human development, exclusively or concurrently with the pediatric population; studies on animals; literature review articles; dissertations; book chapters; case study articles; and editorials.
A book report protocol was created for this study, including the following information: author, department, year, location, population/sample, age, purpose of the study, methods, and main results.
We found 8,451 articles by typing keywords and identifiers. Out of this total, 5,928 were excluded by the title, 2,366 by the abstract, and 123 after we read the full text. Thus, 34 articles were selected, of which 28 were repeated in the databases, totalizing 6 articles analyzed in this review.
We observed a lack of standardization of the quantitative instruments used to assess children's sense of smell, with great variability in the methodology of the tests, which reduces the effectiveness and reliability of the results.
从现有文献中系统收集在儿童研究中用于评估嗅觉的定量工具。
本研究包括在PubMed和Bireme平台以及MedLine、Lilacs、区域SciELO和科学网数据库中进行的一项调查，随后对找到并选定的文章进行筛选和批判性分析。
我们选择了与该主题相关的原创文章，这些文章仅针对葡萄牙语、英语和西班牙语儿童。我们排除了专门针对或同时涉及儿科人群以外的人类发育其他阶段的研究；动物研究；文献综述文章；学位论文；书籍章节；案例研究文章；以及社论。
为该研究创建了一份书籍报告方案，包括以下信息：作者、部门、年份、地点、人群/样本、年龄、研究目的、方法和主要结果。
通过输入关键词和标识符，我们找到了8451篇文章。其中，5928篇因标题被排除，2366篇因摘要被排除，123篇在我们阅读全文后被排除。因此，选定了34篇文章，其中28篇在数据库中重复出现，本综述共分析了6篇文章。
我们观察到用于评估儿童嗅觉的定量工具缺乏标准化，测试方法存在很大差异，这降低了结果的有效性和可靠性。
