Dor: validação clínica no pós-operatório de cirurgia cardíaca. / Pain: clinical validation with post-operative heart surgery patients.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1997

RESUMO

The aim of this study was to estimate the content validity of pain defining characteristics. The sample consisted of two groups of 40 post-operative heart surgery patients of which one was composed of patients experiencing pain. The defining characteristics were graded according to frequency in the patients in pain: major, minor and irrelevant. Thirty-two possible defining characteristics were identified in the literature. Operational definitions and measurement criteria were developed for each of the defining characteristics being validated by experts. Each patient was observed and interviewed with regard to the presence of each of the defining characteristics. Parametric and non-parametric statistical tests were performed in order to identify the differences between groups according to defining characteristics. The group experiencing pain had statistically different results from the group without pain because there was a higher frequency or higher scores in the following nineteen defining characteristics: Major- verbal report of pain, discomfort, fear of reinjury, sleep disturbance, guarding behaviour distraction behaviour, irritability, restlessness, facial expressions of pain, increased heart beat, immobility; Minor- anxiety, loss of appetite, self focus, withdrawal, impaired thought process, unusual posture, increased blood pressure and changes in respiratory patterns. Studies of the same defining characteristics in other sample groups of acute and chronic pain patients might be useful in the development of knowledge in this field.

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dor validação clínica pain diagnóstico de enfermagem clinical validation nursing diagnosis

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