Measuring Pain

 

Study

Details

Evaluation

Application

Karoly 1985

Factors that contribute to pain

 

 

Chapman et al 1985

Pain report and EEG

Pain report and EMG

Correlation

No correlation

 

Evaluation of physiological measures

 

The advantage of the physiological measures of pain described above is that they are objective On the other hand; they involve the use of expensive machinery and trained personnel. Their main disadvantage, however, is that they are not valid. Autonomic responses can be affected by many other factors such as diet, alcohol consumption and infection.

 

Better used as a signal for the presence of pain rather than as a direct indices of pain.

Turk et al (1985)

Classification of observable pain

 

 

Keefe and Williams (1992)

Five elements that need to be consid­ered when preparing to assess any form of behav­iour in a natural setting

 

 

Richards et al (1982)

UAB Pain Behaviour Scale

 

 

Melzack (1975)

McGill Pain Questionnaire

 

 

Turk et al (1993)

Techniques for recording pain by somebody living with patient

 

 

Carroll (1993)

Dimensions of pain

 

 

 

The Fun bit

Exercise 1 Banyard p72.