School of Life Sciences, University of Skövde, Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden.
Women Birth. 2013 Jun;26(2):143-6. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2012.11.001. Epub 2012 Dec 5.
Assessment of women's labor pain is seldom acknowledged in clinical practice or research. The words "aching" and "hurting" are frequently used by women to describe childbirth pain. The aim of this study was to determine the quantitative meanings midwifery students attribute to the terms "hurt", "ache" and "pain". Data was collected by self-administered questionnaire from students at seven Swedish midwifery programs. A total of 230 filled out and returned a completed questionnaire requesting them to rate, on a visual analog scale, the intensity of "hurt", "ache" or "pain" in the back, as reported by a fictitious parturient.
The midwifery students attributed, with substantial individual variation, different quantitative meanings to the studied pain descriptors.
To be able to communicate about pain with a woman in labor, it is essential that the midwife be familiar with the value of different words and what they mean to her as this may affect her assessment when the woman describes her pain.
在临床实践或研究中，很少有人关注女性的分娩疼痛评估。女性常常用“疼痛”和“不适”来描述分娩疼痛。本研究旨在确定助产士学生对“疼痛”、“不适”和“疼痛”这三个词的定量含义。通过对 7 个瑞典助产士项目的学生进行自我管理问卷调查，收集数据。共有 230 名学生填写并交回了一份完整的问卷，要求他们根据虚构的产妇的报告，在视觉模拟量表上对背部的“疼痛”、“不适”或“疼痛”的强度进行评分。
助产士学生对所研究的疼痛描述词赋予了不同的定量含义，个体差异很大。
为了能够与分娩中的女性进行疼痛沟通，助产士必须熟悉不同词语的价值以及对她的意义，因为这可能会影响她对女性疼痛描述的评估。
