LaFleur C J, Raway B
St. Mary's/Duluth Clinic Health System, MN, USA.
Pediatr Nurs. 1999 Jan-Feb;25(1):45-50, 55.
This study examined children's and adolescents' perceptions of the descriptors hurt, ache, and pain. Nonhospitalized subjects (N = 198) between 8 and 19 years of age from three schools rated the levels of intensity associated with each of the descriptors on a word-graphic rating scale and matched each to one of three drawings depicting painful experiences. Subjects ranked pain highest; hurt middle; and ache lowest intensity. Significant preferences for matching descriptors to painful experiences was not demonstrated except for the word ache. These findings indicate that children and adolescents associate similar levels of intensity with pain, hurt, and ache but associate different experiences with each.
本研究考察了儿童和青少年对“受伤”“疼痛”和“痛感”这些描述词的认知。来自三所学校的198名8至19岁非住院受试者，通过词语图形评定量表对与每个描述词相关的强度水平进行评分，并将每个描述词与三幅描绘痛苦经历的图画之一进行匹配。受试者将“痛感”排在最高；“受伤”排在中间；“疼痛”排在最低强度。除了“疼痛”这个词外，未表现出将描述词与痛苦经历进行匹配的显著偏好。这些发现表明，儿童和青少年对“疼痛”“受伤”和“疼痛”的强度水平认知相似，但对每个词所关联的经历认知不同。
