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Chronic Low Back Pain Descriptors

Márcia De Oliveira Sakamoto Silva Garbi, marshasilva@hotmail.com¹, Hilze Benigno De O. Moura Siqueira¹, Débora Pedrosa², Fátima A. Faleiros Sousa¹, Priscilla Hortese³, (1) University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (2) University of São Paulo, Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, (3) Federal University of Sao Carlos, Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Pain is always subjective and may have been perceived at some point of life for almost all adults, its prevalence is high in the world population, generating social and economic costs of major proportions. It is necessary to listen to the person in pain situation so we can measure it and therewith seek alternatives for alleviating their suffering, to improve their quality of life. Pain is a complex phenomenon, so the multidimensional instruments search of evaluate more adequately the painful experience. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the major and minor descriptors attribution in the characterization of chronic low back pain. This is a transversal study descriptive exploratory performed in a pain clinic of a university hospital in an inner city in the state of São Paulo, after approval of the Ethics Committee of the Nursing School of Ribeirão Preto – USP, protocol 1358/2011. The instrument used was the Multidimensional Scale of Pain Assessment (EMADOR). The sample consisted of 60 subjects who had chronic back pain. The results showed that the five descriptors with higher scores, considering the arithmetic means were uncomfortable, nauseous, painful, terrible, harmful, being the sensitives (uncomfortable, painful), affective (nauseous, terrible) and cognitive (harmful) and the five descriptors of lower attribution were anguished, disgraceful, scary, disastrous and depressing all indicate the affective component. It is emphasized that the findings of this study are consistent with results from other studies that evaluated pain phenomenon, demonstrating the multidimensionality of this phenomenon. References: 1) Cardoso, R.P.S.; Faleiros Sousa, F.A.E. The Identification and validation of the Brazilian Chronic Pain Descriptors, Pain Management Nursing, 2009. 2) Faleiros Sousa F. F. et al. Escala Multidimensional de Avaliação da Dor (EMADOR), Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, v.18, n. 1, [9 telas], jan-fev 2010. 3) Pereira, L. V.; Faleiros Sousa, F. A. E. Categorização de descritores da dor pós-operatória nas dimensões sensitiva, afetiva e avaliativa da experiência dolorosa, Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, vol.15, n. 4, p. 563-557, July/Aug. 2007. 4) Pedrosa D. F. A. Avaliação e Mensuração da dor crônica isquêmica e da qualidade de vida. 2009 104 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências) – Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2009.

Funding: None