Department of Emergency Medicine, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea.
Pain. 2018 Apr;159(4):656-662. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001131.
Pain scales using faces are commonly used tools for assessing pain in children capable of communicating. However, some children require other types of pain scales because they have difficulties in understanding faces pain scales. The goal of this study was to develop and validate the "Pain Block" concrete ordinal scale for 4- to 7-year-old children. This was a multicenter prospective observational study in the emergency department. Psychometric properties (convergent validity, discriminative validity, responsivity, and reliability) were compared between the "Pain Block" pain scale and the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) to assess the validity of the "Pain Block" scale. A total of 163 children (mean age, 5.5 years) were included in this study. The correlation coefficient between the FPS-R and the Pain Block scale was 0.82 for all participants which increased with age. Agreement between the 2 pain scales was acceptable, with 95.0% of the values within the predetermined limit. The differences in mean scores between the painful group and nonpainful group were 3.3 (95% confidence interval, 2.6-4.1) and 3.8 (95% confidence interval, 3.1-4.6) for FPR-S and Pain Block, respectively. The pain scores for both pain scales were significantly decreased when analgesics or pain-relieving procedures were administered (difference in Pain Block, 2.4 [1.4-3.3]; and difference in FPS-R, 2.3 [1.3-3.3]). The Pain Block pain scale could be used to assess pain in 4- to 7-year-old children capable of understanding and counting up to the number 5, even if they do not understand the FPS-R pain scale.
疼痛面部评估尺常用于能够交流的儿童疼痛评估。然而,一些儿童需要其他类型的疼痛评估尺,因为他们在理解面部疼痛评估尺方面有困难。本研究的目的是开发和验证适用于 4 至 7 岁儿童的“疼痛块”实体顺序量表。这是一项在急诊科进行的多中心前瞻性观察研究。将“疼痛块”疼痛量表与修订后的面部疼痛量表(FPS-R)进行比较,评估“疼痛块”量表的有效性,比较两者的心理测量特性(聚合效度、判别效度、反应性和可靠性)。本研究共纳入 163 名儿童(平均年龄 5.5 岁)。所有参与者中 FPS-R 与“疼痛块”量表之间的相关系数为 0.82,且随年龄增加而增加。两种疼痛量表之间的一致性可接受,95.0%的数值在预定范围内。疼痛组与非疼痛组之间的平均评分差异分别为 3.3(95%置信区间,2.6-4.1)和 3.8(95%置信区间,3.1-4.6),分别用于 FPS-R 和“疼痛块”。给予镇痛或止痛程序后,两种疼痛量表的疼痛评分均显著降低(“疼痛块”差异为 2.4[1.4-3.3];FPS-R 差异为 2.3[1.3-3.3])。“疼痛块”疼痛量表可用于评估能够理解并数到 5 的 4 至 7 岁儿童的疼痛,即使他们不理解 FPS-R 疼痛量表。