Anna Volerman, Margaret Dennin, Monica Vela, Stacy Ignoffo, Valerie G Press
A qualitative study of parent perspectives on barriers, facilitators and expectations for school asthma care among urban, African-American children
The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
visual analog scales vas numeric analog scales nas used assess postoperative pain studies indicate usefulness rural illiterate population india study designed 1 compare impact literacy ability indicate pain rating vas nas postoperative rural patients 2 assess level agreement pain scales cross sectional hospital based study informed consent obtained patients prior undergoing surgical procedures teaching hospital post surgery patients conscious coherent asked rate pain vas nas pain ratings obtained within 24 hours surgery within 5 minutes percentages chi square test regression analysis total 105 patients participated study 43 41 sample illiterate 82 781 able rate pain vas 81 771 able rate pain nas significant association pain ratings type surgery duration surgery nature anaesthesia multivariate analysis age sex literacy significant association ability rate pain vas p value 0652 0967 0328 respectively similarly significant association obtained age sex literacy ability rate pain nas p value 0713 0405 0875 respectively correlation coefficient scales 0693 vas nas used interchangeably indian rural population postoperative pain assessment tools irrespective literacy status