Conference Proceedings - School of Nursing & Midwifery - Trinity ...

School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
(2003) who found mean intensity ratings of 7.5 (SD 2.2) in the
triage area and 7.7 (SD2.2) in the clinical area. Nurses in this Irish
study estimated their patients’ average pain intensity as 5.2 (SD
2.55), which is similar to the findings of Puntillo et al. (2003) who
found nurses mean score as 5.1 (2.4) in the triage area and 4.2 (SD
2.3) in the clinical area. Both patients’ pain intensity ratings and
nurses’ estimation of patients’ pain intensity are indicative of
moderate pain in this study, while in the Puntillo et al. (2003) study
patients mean pain was estimated as severe, while nurses
estimated patients’ pain to be moderate (Serlin et al, 1995). In the
current study, differences in patients’ and nurses’ pain intensity
ratings were found to be statistically significant at p= 0.003 which is
in agreement with Puntillo et al. (2003) who found the difference in
pain intensity ratings to be statistically significant at p