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To determine the initial psychometric properties, validity, reliability, and scaling characteristics of the Faces Pain Scale (FPS) as a pain intensity measure in older adults.

March 1, 1998Clinical Journal of Pain

Evaluation of the Faces Pain Scale for Use with the Elderly

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KHKeela HerrUniversity of Iowa PMPaula R. MobilyUniversity of Iowa FKFrank J. KohoutUniversity of Cambridge

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Correlational study demonstrates strong reliability and ordinal validity of the Faces Pain Scale in older adults, indicating its utility for geriatric pain assessment.

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To determine the initial psychometric properties, validity, reliability, and scaling characteristics of the Faces Pain Scale (FPS) as a pain intensity measure in older adults.
Conducted a descriptive correlational study using nonrandom sampling among 168 community-dwelling subjects aged 65 or older.
Evaluated psychometric attributes using Likert-type items, face rank-ordering tasks, 1-meter red wedge spatial placement tasks, and a 2-week test-retest assessment of a remembered painful experience.
Face rank-ordering demonstrated near-perfect agreement between the expected ranking and participant rankings (Kendall's W = .97, p = .00).
Test-retest reliability for rating a vividly remembered painful event across a 2-week interval was highly reproducible (Spearman rho = .94, p = .01).
While simultaneous wedge placement demonstrated distinct separation of faces without 95% confidence interval overlap, independent placement fell outside the 95% confidence limit for three of five faces with substantial variance from the expected 167 mm intervals.

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Herr et al. (1998) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c3fe8bc71fb1015a95c94 https://doi.org/10.1097/00002508-199803000-00005

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Correlational study demonstrates strong reliability and ordinal validity of the Faces Pain Scale in older adults, indicating its utility for geriatric pain assessment.

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