Accuracy of children's pain memories

L. N.L. Zonneveld; P. J. McGrath; G. J. Reid; M. J. Sorbi

doi:10.1016/S0304-3959(97)03379-4

Accuracy of children's pain memories

L. N.L. Zonneveld, P. J. McGrath, G. J. Reid, M. J. Sorbi

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Abstract

Despite its importance in clinical practice, little research has examined memory for pain in children. This prospective study tried to justify the use of children's pain recall in clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to (a) investigate the accuracy of children's recall of their worst and average pain intensity when controlling for the effects of repeated pain measurement and (b) examine the influence of children's anxiety, age, general memory ability and pain coping strategies on this accuracy. The accuracy of children's recalled pain intensities was studied in 55 inpatients aged 5-16 years by comparing the level of recorded pain intensity with the level of recalled pain intensity 1 day and 1 week after recording using Bieri's Faces Pain Scale. The accuracy of children's recalled pain intensities was high and showed little decrement over 1 week. Older children had more accurate recall of their worst pain intensity. Anxiety, general memory ability and pain coping strategies were not related to accuracy of recalled pain intensities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	297-302
Number of pages	6
Journal	Pain
Volume	71
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3959(97)03379-4
Publication status	Published - 1997

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We would like to thank the nursing and medical staff of the Izaak Killam Walton Children's Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for their cooperation. We also wish to thank the children and their parents for their enthusiastic participation in our study. This study was supported by a STIR-freemover student travel grant from Nuffic (The Netherlands), a grant from the foundation Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds in The Hague (The Netherlands) to Lyonne N.L. Zonneveld, an unrestricted grant from Bristol Myers Squibb to Professor Patrick J. McGrath, and an IWK Children's Hospital Foundation postdoctoral fellowship to Graham J. Reid.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Neurology
Clinical Neurology
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

PubMed: MeSH publication types

Clinical Trial
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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