Symptom questions asked of carers of children enrolled in the WATCH trial, inclusive of the AOM SOS scale items (collected at enrolment and days 3, 7 and 14).
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*blue shaded items correspond to the Acute Otitis Media-Severity of Symptoms scale (AOM-SOS version 3.0). NB: in AOM-SOS version 4.0, items 11 and 12 above are omitted.At face-to-face visits, ROs administered the AOM-FS by showing parents/carers the AOM-FS image and recording responses. At the phone-based study points, ROs read out the indicators and asked the parents/carers to refer to the image in their take-home materials. Parents/carers were given a take-home diary comprising daily AOM-FS images to collect interim symptoms. They were instructed to circle the image which best corresponded to their child’s current symptoms at approximately the same time each day.