Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Narayana Dental College and Hospital, Nellore, India.
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Narayana Dental College and Hospital, Nellore, India.
Int J Paediatr Dent. 2023 Jul;33(4):364-371. doi: 10.1111/ipd.13044. Epub 2023 Jan 20.
Dental pain exerts a considerable impact on the psychosocial well-being of children; reliable management of pain depends on the ability to assess pain intensity.
To validate and compare a new memojis pain assessment scale with the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) and Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale (WBFPS) in assessing dental pain experienced by children.
Two hundred and fifty healthy children aged 5-9 years without any past dental experience and requiring local anaesthesia (LA) administration were recruited. Three different scales [FPS-R, WBFPS and Memojis Pain Scale (MPS)] were applied to assess the children's pain during LA administration. The preferences of each child based on the ease of understanding the faces were recorded.
Pearson correlation test was performed to determine the correlation between MPS with WBFPS and MPS with FPS-R. A strong correlation was seen when comparing MPS with WBFPS (r = .966; p < .001) and MPS with FPS-R (r = .969; p < .001), and 81.6% of the children preferred MPS.
The Memojis Pain Scale was an effective pain assessment tool. It can be employed as an alternative scale for pain assessment in children.
牙痛会对儿童的社会心理健康产生重大影响;可靠的疼痛管理取决于评估疼痛强度的能力。
验证和比较一种新的 Memojis 疼痛评估量表与修订后的面部疼痛评分量表(FPS-R)和 Wong-Baker FACES 疼痛评定量表(WBFPS)在评估儿童经历的牙痛方面的效果。
招募了 250 名年龄在 5-9 岁、没有任何过去牙科经验且需要局部麻醉(LA)管理的健康儿童。应用三种不同的量表(FPS-R、WBFPS 和 Memojis 疼痛量表(MPS))来评估儿童在 LA 给药期间的疼痛。记录每个孩子根据理解面孔的难易程度对每个量表的偏好。
进行 Pearson 相关检验以确定 MPS 与 WBFPS 和 MPS 与 FPS-R 之间的相关性。当比较 MPS 与 WBFPS(r=.966;p<.001)和 MPS 与 FPS-R(r=.969;p<.001)时,观察到强相关性,81.6%的儿童更喜欢 MPS。
Memojis 疼痛量表是一种有效的疼痛评估工具。它可以作为儿童疼痛评估的替代量表。