Table 6.

Tablet acceptability questionnaire

Numerical Rating Scales (NRSS) OR qualitative/descriptive controlled vocabulary for palatability/acceptability assessments of paediatric oral use formulations
Score	1	2	3	4	5
Overall opinion of taste	Very bad	Bad	Acceptable/ OK/ Not nice and not bad	Good/ Nice	Very good/ Very nice
Overall swallowability (descriptive)	Vomits the drug immediately or within 2 h	Spat it out	Swallowed with some problems	Swallowed with no problems
Parent/caregivers’ overall opinion on their daughter’s acceptability of the formulation	Very bad	Bad	Acceptable/ OK	Good	Very good