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Chronic Pain at 4 Months in Hospitalized Trauma Patients
- Source :
- Journal of Trauma Nursing. 19:154-159
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012.
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Abstract
- Many studies report on the incidence of chronic pain. However, deficiencies exist in prior research making it difficult to generalize results to trauma patients. This study evaluated the incidence of chronic pain in trauma patients at 4 months posttrauma and effect chronic pain has on life interference. The incidence of chronic pain was present in 79.2% of trauma patients 4 months posttrauma and a strong positive correlation (n = 80, r = 0.79, P < 0.001) existed between chronic pain severity and the effect on life interference. Chronic pain is prevalent and causes significant life interference in traumatically injured patients.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Adolescent
Emergency Nursing
Critical Care Nursing
Positive correlation
Risk Assessment
Disability Evaluation
Young Adult
Age Distribution
Injury Severity Score
Internal medicine
Humans
Medicine
Glasgow Coma Scale
Longitudinal Studies
Prospective Studies
Sex Distribution
Pain Measurement
Advanced and Specialized Nursing
Analysis of Variance
Chi-Square Distribution
Multiple Trauma
business.industry
Incidence
Incidence (epidemiology)
Chronic pain
Length of Stay
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Quality of Life
Physical therapy
Female
Chronic Pain
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10787496
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Trauma Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0811a6621a0cf44f3279857ca249036a