چكيده لاتين :
.Several pain assessment tools have been proposed for use in different settings, but neither
have been validated for all patients, especially Iranians.
We conducted this study to compare the accuracy of two most commonly used tools for
evaluation of pain intensity in a group of postoperative Iranian patients.
All postoperative patients admitted to the surgical wards of Masih Daneshvari and Rasoul
Akram Hospitals, Tehran, Iran were studied. During a two-month period, patients were evaluated
for pain intensity within 24 hours of operation. Visual analogue scale and faces rating scale were
used for this purpose.
Eighty- two patients were enrolled into the study. Forty-eight patients underwent obstetrics and
34 had general surgeries. Using Spearman analysis, we found a linear correlation between the
results of the two methods (P=O.952). Using mUltivariate analysis, we found that none of the
variables such as age, gender, and education level had significant effects on correlation between
visual analogue scale and faces rating scale.
Visual analogue scale and faces rating scale are two pain assessment tools that can be used
interchangeably for evaluation of acute postoperative pain.
