title: A quasi-experimental nursing study on pain in comatose patients.
abstract: to verify whether comatose patients feel pain during the bed bath nursing procedure.
  nineteen patients aged 61 ± 17.39 years participated in the study. A quantitative analysis was conducted on the P substance (PS) in the saliva collected before and during a bed bath, using the ELISA method. Program Graph Pad Prisma 6 was used to analyze the data. The verification of normality was made through the Shapiro Wilk test, which determined the choice for the Wilcoxon nonparametric test.
  the study showed a statistically significant increase (∆= 5.62%, p<0.001) in the PS level of the patients studied during the nursing procedure.
  when caring for comatose patients during a bed bath, professionals cause or add painful stimuli; therefore, they feel pain.
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Fundamentos de Enfermagem. Macaé-RJ, Brasil.
authors: Gunnar Glauco de Cunto
authors: GG
authors: Taets
authors: Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Escola de Enfermagem Alfredo Pinto. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brasil.
authors: Nébia Maria Almeida de
authors: NM
authors: Figueiredo
mesh_terms: D001494:Baths; D001938:Brazil; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D003128:Coma; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing