[The Color Analog Scale: a valid instrument for measuring pain intensity in Catalan-speaking children?].

Objective: To evaluate the validity of the Color Analog Scale (CAS) for assessing pain intensity in a Catalan-speaking pediatric population.

Patients And Methods: We compared children's CAS pain intensity ratings with their scores on the Catalan version of the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R). We also compared the CAS to ratings of affective experience of pain evaluated with the Facial Affective Scale (FAS).

Pain in older adults: a prevalence study in the Mediterranean region of Catalonia.

Although information is available about the prevalence of pain in older adults in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian countries, very little is known about older adults in other parts of the world. This study reports the prevalence of pain in a randomly selected sample of older adults living in the Mediterranean region of Catalonia. Besides studying the existence of pain at the time of interview, the authors investigated several characteristics of the participants' pain experience: pain onset, number and location of pain sites, intensity of pain, number of days in pain, severity of pain, the extent to which pain interfered with daily life, and expressed needs in relation to pain.

Evaluation of reliability, validity, and preference for a pain intensity scale for use with the elderly.

Unlabelled: The main objective of this research was to determine the initial psychometric properties of the Spanish Version of the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) as a measure of pain intensity for use with the elderly. To assess the scaling properties, validity, and reliability of the FPS-R, a total sample of 177 subjects aged 65 years or older participated in this study. Ranking procedures, placement tasks, and test-retest methods were used.