Influence of pain intensity on the unidimensional scales responses of pain measurement in an elderly and young adults population

Authors

  • Adriano Polican Ciena Universidade Estadual de Londrina
  • Rutineia Gatto Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
  • Vanessa Cerqueria Pacini Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
  • Vivian Viani Picanço Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
  • Ismaelino Mauro Nunes Magno Universidade Paranaense - UNIPAR
  • Eduardo Alexandre Loth Universidade do Oeste do Parana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0367.2008v29n2p201

Keywords:

Pain, Pain measurement, The elderly.

Abstract

Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensorial and emotional experience associated to a current or potential damage to the tissue, or described in terms of this damage, as the “5th vital sign”. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of the pain intensity on the responses in unidimensional scales of pain measurement in elderly people and young adults who were admitted to the Hospital Universitário do Oeste do Paraná. The pain was evaluated in both groups, the elderly (GI) and young adults (GII), with a hundred individuals in each group, from April to July 2006, who were selected according to the research inclusion and exclusion criteria. Pain evaluation was carried out through the following scales: the Analogical Visual Scale (AVS), the Numerical Visual Scale (NVS) and the Easy Scale (ES). Results showed a strong level of concordance between the GII-group scales, presenting statistical significance (p<0,05) of the NVS in mild pain classification. It is concluded that the results showed the existence of the influence of pain intensity on the responses of GI-group scales, which did not happen in the GII group.

 

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Author Biographies

Adriano Polican Ciena, Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Graduado em Fisioterapia, pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina-UEL, Especialista em Fisioterapia Ortopédica e Traumatológica e em Fisioterapia Geriátrica pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – UNIOESTE campus Cascavel-PR e Docente do Curso de Biomedicina da Universidade Parananense – UNIPAR, campus Cascavel.

Rutineia Gatto, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

Especialista em Fisioterapia Geriátrica pela Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – UNIOESTE campus Cascavel-PR.

Vanessa Cerqueria Pacini, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

Acadêmica do Curso de Fisioterapia Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – UNIOESTE campus Cascavel-PR.

Vivian Viani Picanço, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná

Acadêmica do Curso de Fisioterapia Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – UNIOESTE campus Cascavel-PR.

Ismaelino Mauro Nunes Magno, Universidade Paranaense - UNIPAR

Graduado em Biomedicina, pela Universidade Federal do Pará –UFPA, Doutorando em Doenças Tropicais – UFPA e Coordenador do Curso de Biomedicina – UNIPAR/ campus Cascavel-Pr.

Eduardo Alexandre Loth, Universidade do Oeste do Parana

Fisioterapeuta, Mestre pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana da UFSM /RS, docente e Coordenador do Curso de Fisioterapia da UNIOESTE – campus de Cascavel/PR.

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Published

2008-12-15

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Ciena AP, Gatto R, Pacini VC, Picanço VV, Magno IMN, Loth EA. Influence of pain intensity on the unidimensional scales responses of pain measurement in an elderly and young adults population. Semin. Cienc. Biol. Saude [Internet]. 2008 Dec. 15 [cited 2024 May 12];29(2):201-12. Available from: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/seminabio/article/view/3467

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Vol. 29 No. 2 (2008)

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