A verbal descriptor incremental pain scale developed by South African Tswana-speaking patients with low back pain
South African Journal of Physiotherapy
| Field | Value | |
| Title | A verbal descriptor incremental pain scale developed by South African Tswana-speaking patients with low back pain | |
| Creator | Yazbek, Michelle Stewart, Aimee V. Bentley, Alison | |
| Description | Background: Measuring pain in patients whose home language is not English can be difficult as there may not be a scale available in their home language. Scales devised in other countries may also not be accurate after translation.Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop and test a new verbal pain descriptor scale in a Tswana-speaking population in South Africa with low back pain.Method: Two separate Tswana-speaking groups (20 males and 20 females) of patients with low back pain were asked to describe each of four categories of pain: mild, moderate, severe and worst. They then voted and descriptions obtaining more than 70% of the vote were taken to the next round of voting with both groups together. A final scale of one description for each category of pain (Tswana Verbal Pain Descriptor Scale – TVPDS) for both males and females was tested on a sample of 250 patients with low back pain and against three other non-verbal pain scales.Results: All items on the final scale were approved by at least 70% of both male and female participants. The scores for the TVPDS correlated well with present pain perception (r = 0.729, p 0.0001) measured on the numerical visual analogue scale. The TVPDS correlated well with the Wong–Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale (r = 0.695, p 0.0001) and the Pakistani Coin Pain Scale (r = 0.717, p 0.0001).Conclusion: The TVPDS has the potential to be a useful clinical scale but more testing in other languages is still required.Clinical implications: This pain scale has the potential to be a useful scale to use for Tswana-speaking persons with low back pain and could also be useful for persons of other languages, if translated. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2018-08-30 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajp.v74i1.460 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Physiotherapy; Vol 74, No 1 (2018); 6 pages 2410-8219 0379-6175 | |
| Language | eng | |
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