A comparison of adolescents' and nurses' postoperative pain ratings and perceptions.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between adolescents' subjective and nurses' objective pain ratings and their perceptions of each other's evaluation.

Methodology: Twenty-two adolescent patients admitted for elective surgical procedures and the registered nurses responsible for their nursing management rated pain on a visual analog scale. Pearson Product Moment Correlation, Spearman Rank-Difference Correlation, and T-Test were used to analyze the results.