Pereira Lílian Varanda, Pereira Gilberto de Araújo, Moura Louise Amália de, Fernandes Rayanne Rodrigues
Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil.
Rev Esc Enferm USP. 2015 Oct;49(5):804-10. doi: 10.1590/S0080-623420150000500014.
Correlating two unidimensional scales for measurement of self-reported pain intensity for elderly and identifying a preference for one of the scales.
A study conducted with 101 elderly people living in Nursing Home who reported any pain and reached ( 13 the scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination. A Numeric Rating Scale - (NRS) of 11 points and a Verbal Descriptor Scale (VDS) of five points were compared in three evaluations: overall, at rest and during movement.
Women were more representative (61.4%) and the average age was 77.0±9.1 years. NRS was completed by 94.8% of the elderly while VDS by 100%. The association between the mean scores of NRS with the categories of VDS was significant, indicating convergent validity and a similar metric between the scales.
Pain measurements among institutionalized elderly can be made by NRS and VDS; however, the preferred scale for the elderly was the VDS, regardless of gender.
关联两种用于测量老年人自我报告疼痛强度的一维量表，并确定对其中一种量表的偏好。
对101名住在养老院且报告有任何疼痛、简易精神状态检查表得分达到13分的老年人进行了一项研究。在三次评估中比较了11分的数字评定量表（NRS）和5分的语言描述量表（VDS）：总体、休息时和运动时。
女性更具代表性（61.4%），平均年龄为77.0±9.1岁。94.8%的老年人完成了NRS，100%的老年人完成了VDS。NRS平均得分与VDS类别之间的关联具有显著性，表明量表之间具有收敛效度和相似的度量。
机构养老老年人的疼痛测量可通过NRS和VDS进行；然而，无论性别如何，老年人更喜欢的量表是VDS。
