title: [Post-hemorrhoidectomy pain descriptors].
abstract: This study aimed at comparing scales of judgements on differences and verifying the stability and agreement of the estimation made by descriptors of post-operative pain as assessed by three different samples. Nineteen subjects who had been submitted to hemorrhoidectomy participated in the study. They were randomly divided into three groups (Group C, T and F), who received an intravenous administration of ketoprofen 100 mg, tenoxicam 40 mg or physiological serum 0.9% before the surgery. The task of each participant was to assign a score, from 1 to 7, to each descriptor of the pain felt in the first complaint after surgery. The descriptors attributed to post-operative pain were evaluated by the psychophysical method of category estimation. The obtained results were: the descriptors with higher scores for Group C were intense, unbearable and terrible; for Group T, intense, tremendous and unbearable and for Group F, unbearable, intense and terrible.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. prihrt@zipmail.com.br
authors.forename: Hortense
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Priscilla
authors.forename: Renata Alessandra
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Evangelista
authors.forename: Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Sousa
mesh_terms: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006484:Hemorrhoids / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D007660:Ketoprofen / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
chemical_list: D000894:Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; D007660:Ketoprofen