Painful Memories: Reliability of Pain Intensity Recall at 3 Months in Senior Patients

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dc.contributor.authorDaoust, Raoul
dc.contributor.authorSirois, Marie-Josée
dc.contributor.authorLee, Jacques S.
dc.contributor.authorPerry, Jeffrey J.
dc.contributor.authorGriffith, Lauren E.
dc.contributor.authorWorster, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorLang, Eddy
dc.contributor.authorPaquet, Jean
dc.contributor.authorChauny, Jean-Marc
dc.contributor.authorÉmond, Marcel
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27T11:19:57Z
dc.date.available2018-09-27T11:19:57Z
dc.date.issued2017-02-02
dc.date.updated2018-09-27T11:19:56Z
dc.description.abstractBackground. Validity of pain recall is questioned in research. Objective. To evaluate the reliability of pain intensity recall for seniors in an emergency department (ED). Methods. This study was part of a prospective multicenter project for seniors (≥65 years old) treated in an ED for minor traumatic injury. Pain intensity (0–10 numerical rating scale) was evaluated at the initial ED visit, at one week (baseline), and 3 months. At three months, patients were asked to recall the pain intensity they had at baseline. Results. 482 patients were interviewed (mean age 76.6 years, SD ± 7.3) and 72.8% were female. Intraclass correlation coefficient between pain at baseline and its recall was 0.24 (95% CI: 0.14–0.33). Senior patients tended to overestimate their pain intensity by a mean of 1.2 (95% CI: 0.9–1.5) units. A stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that the variance of baseline pain recall at 3 months was explained by pain at ED visit (11%), pain at 3 months (7%), and pain at baseline (2%). Conclusion. The accuracy of pain intensity recall after three months is poor in seniors and seems to be influenced by the pain experienced at the time of injury.
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dc.identifier.citationRaoul Daoust, Marie-Josée Sirois, Jacques S. Lee, et al., “Painful Memories: Reliability of Pain Intensity Recall at 3 Months in Senior Patients,” Pain Research and Management, vol. 2017, Article ID 5983721, 7 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/5983721
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/33039
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5983721
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/108103
dc.language.rfc3066en
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2017 Raoul Daoust et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.titlePainful Memories: Reliability of Pain Intensity Recall at 3 Months in Senior Patients
dc.typeJournal Article
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