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A Protocol of Manual Tests to Measure Sensation and Pain in Humans
Published on: December 19, 2016
Correlation and consistency of pain severity ratings by teens using different pain scales
Jayme M Takahashi1, Loren G Yamamoto
1Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Hawaii Medical Journal
|December 13, 2006
Abstract:
100 teens ranked pain experienced for their most recent "shot"on three different scales: casual 0-10 scale (mean 3.3), faces scale (mean 2.8), and 10 cm visual analog scale (mean 2.4). All pain scores showed wide variation (poor validity). Pain severity values were not equivalent across the different pain scales with the casual 10 scale most likely to overestimate pain values.

