Comparison of Verbal Rating Scale and Numerical Rating Scale in Post Anesthesia Care Unit

NCT ID: NCT03768102

Last Updated: 2020-10-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-12-12
• Study Completion Date: 2019-08-30

Brief Summary

In the postanesthetic care unit(PACU), patients who are recovering from anesthesia are not easy to communicate with. Accordingly, accurate evaluation of acute surgical pain is difficult for PACU patients in spite of severe postoperative pain. Therefore, pain evaluation is clinically important and challenging in PACU. The pain evaluation tool should be simple and easy to understand for accurate assessment. Among the most commonly used pain assessment methods are numerical rating scale(NRS), visual analogue scale(VAS) and verbal rating scale(VRS). These three methods have proved valid for clinical situations in many studies. VRS appears to be easier to understand than the other two methods for patients in PACU. The purpose of this study is to compare NRS and VRS in PACU patients.

Conditions

Pain Measurement; Acute Pain; Postoperative Pain

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult patients who underwent general anesthesia
• The American Society of Anesthesiologists(ASA) physical status classification system : class 1, 2, 3

Exclusion Criteria

• The American Society of Anesthesiologists(ASA) physical status classification system : class 4, 5

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Seoul National University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Jin-Tae Kim

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Jin-Tae Kim, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Seoul National University Hospital

Locations

Jin-Tae Kim

Seoul, Select, South Korea

Countries

South Korea

Other Identifiers

SNUMR2-3

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id