Developing an Instrument for Eliciting Children's Description of Pain

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Expanding on the work of Melzack, Schultz, Scott, and Eland and Anderson, we devised an instrument that would elicit from school age children a description of their pain experience. After three stages of testing the pain questionnaire, high agreement was achieved on 45 measured responses that were not influenced by the children's sex. Although the instrument would need further refinement before use in the assessment of pain, the results show that children can remember and identify a wide range of events that have caused them pain and can describe specific painful situations, using suggested words as well as their own.

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