The influence of children's vocal expressions, age, medical diagnosis and information obtained from parents on nurses' pain assessments and decisions regarding interventions

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A videotape. For every case subjects were asked to assess the child's pain and to state whether they would administer an analgesic. The results indicated that pediatric nurses attributed more pain and were more inclined to administer non-narcotic analgesics to children who vocally expressed their pain than to children who were less expressive. Furthermore, the interaction results between the child's expression and the medical diagnosis revealed a trend indicating that nurses attributed the most pain to the child when the diagnosis was severe and the child vocally expressed his pain. *Corresponding author; Jan Hamers, Department of Nursing Science, University of Limburg, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (Received 1 December 1993; revised version received 3 May 1995; accepted 27 June 1995.) © Lippincott-Raven Publishers....