Pain Assessment Scales PDF

Pain Assessment Scales
The National Initiative on Pain Control (NIPC) has provided these diagnostic tools to assist you in assessing the severity and quality of pain experienced by your patients. We suggest that you produce multiple photocopies so that you may obtain written feedback to place in the patients history file.
Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale
No Hurt
Hurts Little Bit
Hurts Little More
Hurts Even More
Hurts Whole Lot
Hurts Worst
Explain to the person that each face is for a person who feels happy because he has no pain (hurt) or sad because he has some or a lot of pain. Face 0 is very happy because he doesnt hurt at all. Face 1 hurts just a little bit. Face 2 hurts a little more. Face 3 hurts even more. Face 4 hurts a whole lot. Face 5 hurts as much as you can image, although you dont have to be crying to feel this bad. Ask the person to choose the face that best describes how he is feeling. Rating scale is recommended for persons age 3 years and older. Brief word instructions: Point to each face using the words to describe the pain intensity. Ask the child to choose face that best describes own pain and record the appropriate number.
010 Numeric Pain Rating Scale
0 No pain
5 6 Moderate pain
10 Worst possible pain
Visual Analog Scale
No pain
Worst possible pain
Verbal Pain Intensity Scale
No pain
Mild pain
Moderate pain
Severe pain
Very severe pain
Worst possible pain
Where is Your Pain?

Please mark, on the drawings below, the areas where you feel pain. Write E if external or I if internal near the areas which you mark. Write EI if both external and internal.
Neuropathy Pain Scale

Instructions: There are several different aspects of pain which we are interested in measuring: pain sharpness, heat/cold, dullness, intensity, overall unpleasantness, and surface vs deep pain. The distinction between these aspects of pain might be clearer if you think of taste. For example, people might agree on how sweet a piece of pie might be (the intensity of the sweetness), but some might enjoy it more if it were sweeter while others might prefer it to be less sweet. Similarly, people can judge the loudness of music and agree on what is more quiet and what is louder, but disagree on how it makes them feel. Some prefer quiet music and some prefer it more loud. In short, the intensity of a sensation is not the same as how it makes you feel. A sound might be unpleasant and still be quiet (think of someone grating their fingernails on a chalkboard). A sound can be quiet and dull or loud and dull. Pain is the same. Many people are able to tell the difference between many aspects of their pain: for example, how much it hurts and how unpleasant or annoying it is. Although often the intensity of pain has a strong influence on how unpleasant the experience of pain is, some people are able to experience more pain than others before they feel very bad about it. There are scales for measuring different aspects of pain. For one patient, a pain might feel extremely hot, but not at all dull, while another patient may not experience any heat, but feel like their pain is very dull. We expect you to rate very high on some of the scales below and very low on others. We want you to use the measures that follow to tell us exactly what you experience.
Descriptor Differential Scale

EACH WORD REPRESENTS AN AMOUNT OF SENSATION. RATE YOUR SENSATION IN RELATION TO EACH WORD WITH A CHECK MARK.
FAINT MODERATE BARELY STRONG INTENSE WEAK STRONG VERY MILD EXTREMELY INTENSE VERY WEAK SLIGHTLY INTENSE VERY INTENSE MILD
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REFERENCES
Wong-Baker FACES Rating Scale: From Wong DL, Hackenberry-Eaton M, Wilson D, Winkelstein ML, Schwartz P: Wongs Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 6/e, St. Louis, 2001, P. 1301. Copyrighted by Mosby, Inc. Reprinted with permission. 010 Numeric Pain Rating Scale: From McCaffery M, Pasero C. Pain: Clinical Manual, St. Louis, 1999, P. 16. Copyrighted by Mosby, Inc. Reprinted with permission. Visual Analog Scale and Verbal Pain Intensity Scale: From Pain Management: Theory and Practice, edited by RK Portenoy & RM Tanner, copyright 1996 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press. Where is Your Pain? Reprinted from Pain, Volume 1, Melzack R, The McGill Pain Questionnaire: Major Properties and Scoring Methods, 277-299, Copyright 1971, with permission from Elsevier Science. Neuropathy Pain Scale: From Galer BS, Jensen MP. Development and preliminary validation of a pain measure specific to Neuropathic pain: The Neuropathic Pain Scale. Neurology. 1997;48(1):332-338. Reprinted with permission from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Descriptor Differential Scale: From Gracely RH, Kwilosz DM. The descriptor differential scale: applying psychophysical principals to clinical pain assessment. Pain. 1988;35:279-288. Reprinted with permission from the International Association for the Study of Pain.

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Pain Assessment Scales

Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale

Hurts Little Bit

Hurts Little More

Hurts Even More

Hurts Whole Lot

010 Numeric Pain Rating Scale

10 Worst possible pain

Visual Analog Scale

Worst possible pain

Verbal Pain Intensity Scale

Very severe pain

Worst possible pain

Where is Your Pain?

Neuropathy Pain Scale

Descriptor Differential Scale

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