Niven C A, Brodie E E
Department of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 OBA, Scotland, UK.
Pain. 1996 Feb;64(2):387-392. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(95)00134-4.
The accuracy of memory for labor pain context and quality was examined in 33 women who had given birth 3-4 years previously, utilizing the McGill Pain Questionnaire and unstructured recollections of childbirth events. Subjects displayed very good memory for the context of labor pain but poor memory for its quality. In order to test whether recall was influenced by semantic information a second study investigated the extent and type of knowledge which exists about the nature of labor pain amongst 33 women who had never given birth. The description of labor pain provided by nuliparous women was found to be similar in terms of category selection and descriptors to that of parous women. This suggests that women have available semantic information about labor pain which may influence their pain recall or even their assessment of a pain experience.
利用麦吉尔疼痛问卷和对分娩事件的非结构化回忆，对33名在3至4年前分娩的女性的分娩疼痛背景和质量的记忆准确性进行了研究。受试者对分娩疼痛的背景记忆很好，但对疼痛质量的记忆很差。为了测试回忆是否受到语义信息的影响，第二项研究调查了33名从未分娩过的女性中关于分娩疼痛性质的知识范围和类型。未生育女性对分娩疼痛的描述在类别选择和描述词方面与已生育女性相似。这表明女性拥有关于分娩疼痛的语义信息，这可能会影响她们对疼痛的回忆，甚至影响她们对疼痛经历的评估。
