title: The abbreviated burn specific pain anxiety scale: a multicenter study.
abstract: The authors examined ratings on a scale of pain-related anxiety in 173 burn patients in three groups: patients with small burns, patients with moderate burns and patients with extensive burns. The data suggest a greater degree of anxiety during procedures and before procedures in the burn patients with extensive burns than in burn patients with small and moderate burns. This study introduces a novel measure of pain-related anxiety in clinical burn patients, the abbreviated Burn Specific Pain Anxiety Scale (BSPAS), which showed a high degree of reliability. The alpha coefficients were high for the BSPAS subscales.
authors.affiliation: Dutch Burns Foundation, Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, Netherlands.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Taal
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Faber
authors.forename: N E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: van Loey
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Reynders
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Hofland
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002056:Burns / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008347:Manifest Anxiety Scale; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices