SELF-REPORT VERSUS NURSE ASSESSMENT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PEDIATRIC PAIN: AN ARTICLE SUMMARY Colwell, Clark, and Perkins (1996, pp. 375-381) compared the accuracy of child patient self-report of pain with nurse assessment of child patient pain in post-operative environments. The conduct of this study was justified by the authors on the basis of consistent reports in the relevant literature that the under treatment of pain among post-operative child patients is prevalent.
A convenience sample consisting of 44 nurses and 124 post-operative patients was selected for the study reported in this article (Colwell, Clark, and Perkins, 1996, pp. 375-381). The child patients ranged in age from five years old to 17 years old. The sample was selected from among patients and nurses at a 34-bed surgical unit in a private children's hospital in the Southwest.
Self-reports of experienced post-operative pain intensity were obtained from each of the 124 child patients (Colwell, Clark, and Perkins, 1996, pp. 375-381). The nurses were assigned through the application of random procedures to two groups a control group and experimental group. Nurses assigned to the control group were
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