The wong-baker pain FACES scale measures pain, not fear

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-20

  Garra, Gregory ^a   Singer, Adam J ^a   Domingo, Anna ^a   Thode, Henry C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

medical fear; pain measurement; pain severity; validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD MEDICAL FEAR SCALE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FACES PAIN SCALE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84872328521     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31827b2299     Document Type: Article

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