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Table 1 Items and methods for scoring, according to SNAPPS

From: Prevalence of patellofemoral pain and knee pain in the general population of Chinese young adults: a community-based questionnaire survey

Items

Scoring of sections

Patient characteristics

 Sex

 

 Age

 

 Height

 

 Body weight

 

Section 1:

Answer

Yes

No

 Have you had pain or problems in the last year in or around the knee?

Continue to finish sections 2 and 4

Submit

Section 2: Clinical features

Answers and scores

 

Yes

No

 Did you have pain or problems in one or both of your knees?

1

0

 Have you had surgery on your knee?

0

1

 Have you ever had a knee cap that has gone out of joint (dislocated)?

0

1

 Since the beginning of your knee problem, has your knee ever swelled up?

0

1

 Have you had pain and discomfort for more than one month?

1

0

 Thinking about your right (left) knee, what do you consider your main problem with your knee? Did you experience pain or discomfort?

1

0

 Thinking about your right (left) knee, did your current knee problem come on?

1

0

In the presence of bilateral pain, a maximum score of 1 was given for each clinical feature

The minimum score was 0, and the maximum score was 7 in this section

Section 4: Knee pain map

Scores

 The participants were asked to determine the number of areas in which they experience pain (total of six areas in both knees)

One area gets a score of 1

 

In this section, the minimum score was 0, and the maximum score was 6