PMID: 11915257Mar 28, 2002Paper

Pain in nursing home residents. Comparison of residents' self-report and nursing assistants' perceptions. Incongruencies exist in resident and caregiver reports of pain; therefore, pain management education is needed to prevent suffering

Journal of Gerontological Nursing
A L Horgas, K Dunn

Abstract

Physical pain is a significant problem for many older adults, and as many as 83% of nursing home residents reportedly have pain. Unrelieved pain has consequences for elderly individuals' physical and mental health, rehabilitation, and quality of life. Evidence suggests, however, that pain is underdetected and poorly managed among older adults. This may be due, in part, to lack of congruence between patients' and caregivers' perceptions of pain. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate: the prevalence, location, and intensity of residents' self-rated and nursing assistants' (NA) rated pain; the congruence between residents' and NAs' ratings of pain; and resident-based and NA-based correlates of congruent and incongruent pain ratings. Participants in this study were 45 nursing home resident-NA dyads. The results indicated 49% of residents stated they experienced pain in the past week, but NAs reported that 36% of residents experienced pain during the same time interval. There was no significant association between residents' self-ratings and NAs' ratings of pain. Of the 45 paired ratings, residents and NAs were congruent in 37.7% of cases and incongruent in 62.2% of cases. Incongruent ratings included both underdetectio...Continue Reading

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