Spanish Validation of Pediatric Nurses Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain

Although pain is considered a sign/symptom codified by ICD-10, it is not frequently found in the clinical reports of children who have suffered pain due to disease or interventions. It has a negative effect on their well-being, affecting different spheres of their life. Having questionnaires adapted...

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Published in:Pain management nursing 2023-06, Vol.24 (3), p.365-370
Main Authors: Zuazua-Rico, David, Maestro-Gonzalez, Alba, Cano-García, Cristina, Mosteiro-Diaz, María Pilar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child
Clinical Competence
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Nurses
Nurses, Pediatric
Pain
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:Although pain is considered a sign/symptom codified by ICD-10, it is not frequently found in the clinical reports of children who have suffered pain due to disease or interventions. It has a negative effect on their well-being, affecting different spheres of their life. Having questionnaires adapted and validated in different languages makes it possible to compare results between different centers and countries, as well as to adapt training to the deficits found in a given population. To validate the Spanish version of Pediatric Nurses Knowledge and Attittudes Survey Regarding Pain. A translation and back-translation process was carried out by bilingual staff. Subsequently, a test-retest was carried out among nursing professionals in the pediatric area of a third level public center of the Spanish National Health System, to analyze its internal consistency, reliability and discriminant validity. Chronbach's alpha of the test was 0.701 and Pearson's r was 0.703, intraclass correlation coefficien was 0.783. Neonatal intensive care professionals obtained a higher score (59.52%) than those working in pediatric intensive care, emergency and hospitalization, this difference being statistically significant. Likewise, professionals with a specialist´s degree obtained a higher score (62.09%) compared with the rest of the professionals (56.07%). The Spanish version of the Pediatric Nurses Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain is a valid tool to determine the knowledge and attitudes about pain of nursing professionals.
ISSN:1524-9042
1532-8635
DOI:10.1016/j.pmn.2022.09.007