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- Gaston-Johansson, F., et al.
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A comparative study of feelings, attitudes and behaviors of patients with fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.
- 1990
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Ingår i: Social science & medicine. - 0277-9536. ; 31:8, s. 941-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this explorative study was to administer a battery of questionnaires related to a broad number of psychosocial factors in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FS). By doing this, psychological factors associated with the consequences of chronic pain in patients with FS could be identified and studied in more depth. Thirty-one patients with FS were compared to 30 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with regard to feelings about self, pain/ache preoccupation, support from significant others, psychosomatic symptoms, activities of daily living, job satisfaction, and future expectations. The results of the study showed that patients with FS had significantly more negative feelings toward themselves, were more preoccupied with thinking about their pain/ache, received more practical help from significant others, experienced more limitations with regard to activities of daily living, and experienced more negative feelings about employment than patients with RA. Patients with FS were also more pessimistic about future employment than RA patients.
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- Gaston-Johansson, F, et al.
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Myocardial infarction pain : systematic description and analysis
- 1991
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Ingår i: Intensive Care Nursing. - : Churchill Livingstone. - 0266-612X. ; 7:1, s. 3-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the study was to describe various components of pain in suspected acute myocardial infarction (MI). Ninety-four patients admitted to a Coronary Care Unit (CCU) complaining of chest pain with the preliminary diagnosis suspect MI were included in the study. Thirty-eight subjects were eventually diagnosed as having MI and 56 subjects as non-MI. A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects. The Pain-o-meter (POM) and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were used to assess pain intensity. MI patients reported more intense sensory and affective pain than non-MI patients. MI patients also reported more intense affective pain than sensory pain, whereas non-MI patients reported just the opposite. The number of affective words chosen by MI patients differentiated them more clearly from non-MI patients than any other factor in the pain description. Pain intensity was significantly correlated to the estimated size of the infarct.
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- Hofgren, K, et al.
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Word descriptors in suspected acute myocardial infarction. A comparison between patients with and without confirmed acute myocardial infarction
- 1994
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Ingår i: Heart & Lung. - : Elsevier. - 0147-9563 .- 1527-3288. ; 23:5, s. 397-403
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) will not develop in a large proportion of patients admitted to the coronary care unit because of suspected AMI. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether patients with confirmed AMI use different words to describe their pain than patients in whom AMI was not confirmed. DESIGN: A retrospective descriptive design. METHODS: The Pain-O-Meter, a verbal pain scale composed of 12 sensory and 10 emotional word descriptors, was used to assess pain. SETTING: Coronary care unit in Sahlgrenska Hospital in Goteborg, Sweden. SUBJECTS: A convenience sample of 889 consecutive patients admitted to the coronary care unit because of suspected AMI. RESULTS: SENSORY COMPONENT--patients with confirmed AMI differed from those without AMI in the use of the words "pricking" (12% vs 17%; p < 0.05) and "tearing" (11% vs 6%; p < 0.05). No difference was found in the remaining 10 words. Affective components--Patients with confirmed AMI differed from those without AMI in the use of "terrifying" (29% vs 18%; p < 0.001), "intolerable" (16% vs 10%; p < 0.01), and "worrying" (48% vs 59%; p < 0.01). Women used stronger word descriptors more frequently than men. CONCLUSION: The use of specific or more word descriptors to separate patients with AMI from those without AMI was not supported by the study data. Although patients with AMI more frequently used the sensory word tearing as well as the affective words terrifying and intolerable and less frequently used the sensory word pricking and the affective word worrying than patients without AMI, the differences do not suggest a clinical profile that can be used to differentiate these clinical entities.
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