How do children describe pain? A tentative assessment
- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 14 (2) , 95-104
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(82)90091-4
Abstract
Children''s descriptions of the experience of pain are examined. A convenience sample of 100 children in hospitals and 114 children in church and private schools and who were 9-12 old were queried. The questions were designed to seek correlations by age among boys and girls, and between hospitalized and nonhospitalized children that would aid health professionals in strategies that will identify and assist the child who is in pain. The preliminary results show that children clearly describe pain, that there are no appreciable differences by age groups, but that children who are hospitalized describe pain differently from children who are not.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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