Pain from the life cycle perspective: Evaluation and Measurement through psychophysical methods of category estimation and magnitude estimation

Abstract Objective: to describe acute and chronic pain from the perspective of the life cycle. Methods: participants: 861 people in pain. The Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale (MPES) was used. Results: in the category estimation method the highest descriptors of chronic pain for children/...

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Main Authors: Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros Sousa, Talita de Cássia Raminelli da Silva, Hilze Benigno de Oliveira Moura Siqueira, Simone Saltareli, Rodrigo Ramon Falconi Gomez, Priscilla Hortense
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692016000100388&lng=en&tlng=en