A strategy to assess the temporal dimension of pain in children and adolescents.

Nurs Res

Department of Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Published: November 1995

Two formats to enable children and adolescents to report the changing intensity, duration, and pattern of their pain were developed and tested: (a) a dot matrix with intensity markers on the y-axis and time markers on the x-axis and (b) a list of words or word phrases describing the temporal dimension of pain. Analyses of the dot matrix markings revealed six patterns of pain: steady decrease, steady increase, ongoing sharp increases and decreases, stair-step increase and decrease, steady increase and decrease, and constant. The 12 words and phrases described how pain began as well as how the pattern of pain changed over time.

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