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Filter by:The aim is to create a Czech version of pain assessment tools in children, the Simplified Faces Pain Scale (S-FPS) and the Simplified Concrete Ordinal Scale (S-COS), including methodology for their use in practice, and to establish their validity and reliability in pre-school children. The S-FPS is composed of three faces representing three different levels of pain, and the S-COS shows three blocks that symbolize three levels of intensity of pain. The instrument translation and linguistic validation process will be based on the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research guidelines (Wild et al., 2005). Validity and reliability will be tested by comparing the children´s pain intensity using the S-FPS and S-COS, which will be completed by the children, and the instrument Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC), which will be completed independently by the attending nurse and the researcher. A repeated measures design will be used as all assessments will be performed prior to a painful procedure (peripheral venepuncture) and will be repeated twice after the painful procedure, once immediately after the painful procedure and a second time 5-10 minutes after the painful procedure. A total of 180 children with will be recruited (aged 3-6 years) from whom complete data will be obtained.
Pain intensity is commonly measured in research and clinical settings.1 Different pain intensity domains can be assessed, depending on the specific goals of the researcher or clinician. These include current pain, and recalled average pain, least pain and worst pain in the past 24 hours or 7 days. Although average pain (in the past 24 hours or 7 days) is arguably the most common pain intensity domain assessed by researchers and clinicians, some researches indicate that in chronic pain samples, worst pain is more strongly associated with disability than average pain.2 Thus, while current pain is likely the most appropriate pain intensity domain in acute pain contexts (e.g., during medical procedures), both average and worst pain are important domains to consider assessing the chronic pain context. As such, research to understand the most reliable and valid measures for assessing these domains in different pain populations is critical for both researchers and clinicians.
The association between pressure pain threshold and different aspects of low back pain has garnered attention over the years. However, since most of such studies in the past employed cross sectional designs, a longitudinal study design with follow-up measurements is required to further investigate this relationship. Studying this relationship will not only offer insights into the phenomenon of pain but may also bring us one step closer to achieving the seemingly insurmountable goal of objectively measuring back pain and its different dimensions.
The main aim of this study is to identify factors that may be associated with a better or worse response to interventional pain management therapies for the treatment of chronic lumbar pain in adult patients. If several predictive factors are to be identified, a predictive model will be developed.
This is a concept elicitation study to identify important aspects of pain assessment, treatment, and response to treatment in children under than 3 years of age from a caregiver's perspective.
This is a concept elicitation study to identify important aspects of acute pain assessment, treatment, and response to treatment in infants and young children, age 0 to 3 years old, from a clinician's perspective.
This will be an observational cohort study to evaluate pain measurement after surgery using a new functional pain scale.
The assessment and treatment of pain in neonates remains a challenge. In an effort to improve the quality of care while limiting opioid-related adverse effects, this study aims to determine the efficacy of a non-pharmacological intervention on the mitigation of nociception-specific responses to a skin breaking procedure in term and preterm neonates. Such responses will be measured using behavioral measures as well as with electroencephalography-based methods.
In the postanesthetic care unit(PACU), patients who are recovering from anesthesia are not easy to communicate with. Accordingly, accurate evaluation of acute surgical pain is difficult for PACU patients in spite of severe postoperative pain. Therefore, pain evaluation is clinically important and challenging in PACU. The pain evaluation tool should be simple and easy to understand for accurate assessment. Among the most commonly used pain assessment methods are numerical rating scale(NRS), visual analogue scale(VAS) and verbal rating scale(VRS). These three methods have proved valid for clinical situations in many studies. VRS appears to be easier to understand than the other two methods for patients in PACU. The purpose of this study is to compare NRS and VRS in PACU patients.
The numeric rating scale (NRS), one of the most widely used pain scales in clinical practice, although convenient, is often subject to bias because it requires abstract thinking from both the patient and the evaluator. Compared to numbers, traumatic pain, when visualized appropriately, has potential advantage as a means to indicate and communicate the severity of pain. Given that they are standardized in terms of body parts, wound size, and bleeding volume, illustrations of traumatic pain along with external somatic stimuli that caused it can be used to serve as effective visual anchors to supplement a pain scale by giving more concrete information to the patient. The purpose of this study is to develop Seoul National University Illustrated Pain Scale(SNUIPS) using pictures of traumatic pain, and verify the validity and effectiveness of this scale in comparison with those of NRS.