Post-hemorrhoidectomy pain descriptors

Authors

  • Hortense Priscilla Universidade de São Paulo; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto
  • Renata Alessandra Evangelista Universidade de Araraquara
  • Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros Sousa Universidade de São Paulo; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692005000200011

Keywords:

pain, postoperative, subject headings, analgesia

Abstract

This study aimed at comparing scales of judgements on differences and verifying the stability and agreement of the estimation made by descriptors of post-operative pain as assessed by three different samples. Nineteen subjects who had been submitted to hemorrhoidectomy participated in the study. They were randomly divided into three groups (Group C, T and F), who received an intravenous administration of ketoprofen 100 mg, tenoxicam 40 mg or physiological serum 0.9% before the surgery. The task of each participant was to assign a score, from 1 to 7, to each descriptor of the pain felt in the first complaint after surgery. The descriptors attributed to post-operative pain were evaluated by the psychophysical method of category estimation. The obtained results were: the descriptors with higher scores for Group C were intense, unbearable and terrible; for Group T, intense, tremendous and unbearable and for Group F, unbearable, intense and terrible.

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Published

2005-04-01

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2005)

Section

Original Articles

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How to Cite

Post-hemorrhoidectomy pain descriptors. (2005). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 13(2), 203-207. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692005000200011