Volume 16, Issue 9 (December 2018)
Nursing and Midwifery Journal 2018, 16(9): 622-630 |
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1- Instructor, Department of Midwifery,Faculty member of Qom University of Medical Sciences,Qom,Iran
2- Assistant professor of Midwifery, Faculty member of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Evidence-Based caring Research Center, Mashhad, Iran (Corresponding Author) , golmakanin@mums.ac.ir
2- Assistant professor of Midwifery, Faculty member of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Evidence-Based caring Research Center, Mashhad, Iran (Corresponding Author) , golmakanin@mums.ac.ir
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Background & Aims: There are several tools that used to assess postoperative pain. The McGill Pain Questionnaire assesses the qualities of the patient’s pain in sensory and emotional dimensions in addition to the pain intensity. Since the assessment of postoperative pain is important, this study aimed to compare and investigate the correlation between visual analogue scale (VAS) and different dimensions of the short form of McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) in post-cesarean pain evaluation.
Materials & Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was performed on 101 pregnant women who referred to Mashhad Omolbanin hospital after caesarean section in 2015. Two hours after caesarean, the pain was measured by the VAS and the SF-MPQ. The VAS was a straight horizontal line (0-10cm). The (SF-MPQ) consisted of 12-word descriptors of pain (9 words for sensory dimensions and 3for emotional dimension) and a verbal scale. Data were analyzed by SPSS software (version 19), Chi-square, Spearman and Pearson correlation.
Results: The mean of VAS pain was 3.72 ± 1.50 and total scores from the SF-MPQ was (9.94 ± 4.40). The VAS was the most correlated with the verbal expression of pain intensity from the McGill Pain Questionnaire (r=0.64 p
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