ArticleAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias2014
The Use of Visual Analog Scales to Compare Pain Between Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Patients Without Any Known Neurodegenerative Disease and Their Caregivers.
Article in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Assessing pain in nonverbal older adults.Nursing · 2016Article
- Amidated and Ibuprofen-Conjugated Kyotorphins Promote Neuronal Rescue and Memory Recovery in Cerebral Hypoperfusion Dementia Model.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2016Article
- Pharmacological Potential of the Endogenous Dipeptide Kyotorphin and Selected Derivatives.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2016Review
- The effect of shiatsu massage on pain reduction in burn patients.World journal of plastic surgery · 2014Article
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Abstract
Patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) tend to underestimate their pain degree as disease progresses. Their caregivers are the most important source of information by providing regular pain evaluation. Our objectives were to compare pain intensity and affective pain between patients with AD and cognitively normal individuals (N) and to evaluate differences in pain perception between their caregivers. We evaluated pain scores of 121 patients with chronic osteoarticular pain, 60 AD, and 61 N using the colored pain scale/faces pain scale and the caregiver's perception. Data were analyzed using one and two-tailed paired t tests (P< .05). We found that the AD group reported less pain intensity and that their pain was less perceived by their caregiver. This study also points to the need of, when evaluating patients with AD always measure their pain degree using appropriate scales, instead of relying only on the caregiver.
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