Little research exists concerning pain assessment in children with CP. Developmental differences such as cognition and ability to communicate significantly influence children's perception of and ...

Socially, however, itch lacks the dignity of pain. Complaints about itching tend ... the Eppendorf Itch Questionnaire, which like the McGill scale aims to quantify intensity based on patients ...

identified needle injection as the most frequently reported painful medical or nursing procedure by parents of children with CP with a mean intensity of 3.1 on a 0-5 scale (0 = no pain ...

All original studies that assessed validity, reproducibility and/or reliability of the pain scales for ICU usage in adults and children were considered. The search was not restricted by language or ...

Objectives—To assess pain in young children presenting to an accident and emergency (A&E) department. To evaluate the use of the toddler-preschooler postoperative pain scale (TPPPS) and the use of ...

The pain caused by ... (Visual Analog Scale), which refers to a one-dimensional method of measuring pain intensity; in this category there is the advantage of easy and fast application and low cost.

Preterm babies receive up to 16 painful procedures every day. Pain in early life has been linked to altered brain development ...

Joint pain, headaches, stomachaches, fibromyalgia—the list sounds like an inventory of ailments that might plague people as ...

One potentially untapped resource is school nurses and other specialists who are often the first point of contact for a child with chronic pain, such as social workers and school counselors. Programs ...