Reliability and validity of preverbal pain assessment tools
| Autor: | Janis E. Gerkensmeyer, Julia G. Schade, Tawny Raftery, Juanita F. Keck, Gertrude A. Huster, Susan Moser, Betsy A. Joyce |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Analgesic Nursing assessment Pediatrics Pain rating Pain assessment medicine Humans Reliability (statistics) Nursing Assessment Pain Measurement Observer Variation Verbal Behavior Discriminant validity Age Factors Discriminant Analysis Infant Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Nursing Evaluation Research Scale (social sciences) Child Preschool Physical therapy Observational study Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Issues in comprehensive pediatric nursing. 17(3) |
| ISSN: | 0146-0862 |
| Popis: | Pain assessments using three different observational pain assessment tools--the Post Operative Pain Score (POPS), the Nursing Assessment of Pain Intensity (NAPI), and the Pain Rating Scale (PRS)--were made on 98 preverbal children following surgery in an attempt to establish the reliability and validity of the three tools. Two observers (raters) scored pain intensity using each of the three instruments before and after administration of an analgesic. Interrater agreements were satisfactory on all three tools, with Interclass Correlations (ICC) ranging from .71 to .85. T tests supported the discriminant validity of all three tools at the p < .0001 level. The POPS and NAPI had internal consistency reliability alphas ranging from .79 to .88 for the POPS and .59 to .77 for the NAPI. Item analyses suggested specific revisions of the tools that might increase their reliability. |
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