Comparison of Verbal Rating Scale and Numerical Rating Scale in Post Anesthesia Care Unit

Comparative Study of Verbal Rating Scale and Numerical Rating Scale in Post Anesthesia Care Unit

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03768102

Enrollment

200

Registered

2018-12-07

Start date

2018-12-12

Completion date

2019-08-30

Last updated

2020-10-22

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Conditions

Acute Pain, Pain Measurement, Postoperative Pain

Brief summary

In the postanesthetic care unit(PACU), patients who are recovering from anesthesia are not easy to communicate with. Accordingly, accurate evaluation of acute surgical pain is difficult for PACU patients in spite of severe postoperative pain. Therefore, pain evaluation is clinically important and challenging in PACU. The pain evaluation tool should be simple and easy to understand for accurate assessment. Among the most commonly used pain assessment methods are numerical rating scale(NRS), visual analogue scale(VAS) and verbal rating scale(VRS). These three methods have proved valid for clinical situations in many studies. VRS appears to be easier to understand than the other two methods for patients in PACU. The purpose of this study is to compare NRS and VRS in PACU patients.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Adult patients who underwent general anesthesia * The American Society of Anesthesiologists(ASA) physical status classification system : class 1, 2, 3

Exclusion criteria

* The American Society of Anesthesiologists(ASA) physical status classification system : class 4, 5

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pain measurement by the numerical rating scale	5 minutes after transferred into the postanesthesia care unit	Patients verbally requested to rate their pain : Rate your pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (unbearable pain). 0 point is the minimum and 10 point is the maximum. The higher the score, the more severe the pain.
Pain measurement by the verbal rating scale	5 minutes after transferred into the postanesthesia care unit	Patients verbally requested to answer which of the four categories you belong to : no pain, mild pain, moderate pain, severe pain
nonresponse rate of the numerical rating scale	1 year	the rate of assessment failures among the total number of assessment
nonresponse rate of the verbal rating scale	1 year	the rate of assessment failures among the total number of assessment

Countries

South Korea

Outcome results