Children & Postsurgical Pain

In the paper by Twycross (2003), the researcher was looking at how children describe their experiences with postsurgical pain in order to identify what they thought could be done to improve the quality of pain relief they had received following surgery (12). Despite clinical guidelines for the relief of post-operative pain in children, children continue to experience moderate to severe pain, which is not relieved while they are in the hospital.

The independent variable in the study was the opinions of 52 different children aged between 8 and 12 years of age who were undergoing surgery under anesthesia and who had the cognitive ability to respond to the questions of the interviewer. The questions asked in the study concern

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