Psychometric Properties of the Behavioral Pain Scale in Traumatic Brain Injury

• Published in: Pain management nursing 2019-04, Vol.20 (2), p.152-157
• Main Authors: Ribeiro, Caíque J.N., Lima, Alanna G.C. Fontes, de Araújo, Raphael A. Santiago, Nunes, Mariangela da Silva, Alves, José A. Barreto, Dantas, Daniele Vieira, Ribeiro, Maria do C. de Oliveira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Brain Injuries, Traumatic - complications; Brain Injuries, Traumatic - psychology; Brazil; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Nursing; Pain - diagnosis; Pain - etiology; Pain Measurement - instrumentation; Pain Measurement - methods; Pain Measurement - standards; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Psychometrics - methods; Psychometrics - standards; Reproducibility of Results
• ISSN: 1524-9042; 1532-8635
• DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2018.09.004

Pain assessment of patients with traumatic brain injury is a challenge because they are unable to self-report their pain experience. To investigate the psychometric properties of validity, reliability, and responsiveness of the Brazilian version of the Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS-Br) in patients with traumatic brain injury. This was an observational, cross-sectional, repeated-measure and analytical study. This study was developed at the medical and surgical ICUs in a high-complexity public hospital at Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil. Thirty-seven adult patients with moderate or severe TBI were included. This study was completed with 444 independent observations, a pairwise comparison, and was performed simultaneously before, during, and after eye cleaning and endotracheal suctioning of 37 adult patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. The BPS-Br had good internal consistency (.7 ≤ α ≤ .9), good discriminant validity (p