Pain assessment with interactive computer animation.
Pain
; 53(3): 347-351, 1993 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8351164
ABSTRACT
A method of assessing pain using interactive computer animation is described. This method provides quantitative measurements of different qualitative aspects of pain experience without reliance on fine verbal distinctions. A clinical comparison of this procedure and the Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) is reported. Correlations between paper and animated visual analogue scales (VAS) showed that animated measurements can be reliably compared to traditional paper-based reporting. Measurements using animations designed to assess different qualities of pain experience correlated significantly with SF-MPQ measures, providing good concurrent validity. A difference was found between patients who chose only one quality-of-pain animation and those who chose more than one, possibly indicating a difference in patients' verbal fluency. Patients overwhelmingly preferred the interactive animations to the paper-based method.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Computer Graphics
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Pain Measurement
Type of study:
Qualitative_research
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Pain
Year:
1993
Document type:
Article