Open AccessA Study on The Psychometric Properties of Revised-Nonverbal Pain Scale and Original-Nonverbal Pain Scale in Iranian Nonverbal-Ventilated Patients
Author(s) -
Hoda Chookalayi,
Mehdi Heidarzadeh,
Mohammad Hasanpour,
Sajjad Jabrailzadeh,
Fatemeh Sadeghpour
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of critical care medicine/indian journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-359X
pISSN - 0972-5229
DOI - 10.4103/ijccm.ijccm_114_17
Subject(s) - pain scale , medicine , cronbach's alpha , nonverbal communication , anesthesia , psychology , clinical psychology , psychometrics , developmental psychology
The nonverbal pain scale is one of the instruments which study pain in nonverbal-ventilated patients with regard to the changes of behavioral and physiological indices. The purpose of the study is to survey the psychometric properties of revised-nonverbal pain scale (R-NVPS) and original-nonverbal pain scale (O-NVPS) in ventilated patients hospitalized in critical care units.