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Pain-Sensitive Temperament And Postoperative Pain, Charmaine Kleiber, M. Suwanraj, L. Dolan, Mary Berg, A. Kleese
Pain-Sensitive Temperament And Postoperative Pain, Charmaine Kleiber, M. Suwanraj, L. Dolan, Mary Berg, A. Kleese
Mary Berg
PURPOSE: To describe the relationship between pain-sensitive temperament and self-report of pain intensity following surgery. DESIGN AND METHODS: Fifty-nine adolescents and young adults (average age 14 years) undergoing spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis completed the Sensitivity Temperament Inventory for Pain-Child version (STIP-C). The Pearson correlation between STIP-C scores and the highest pain intensity for each of the first three postoperative days was investigated. RESULTS: There was a small but significant correlation between the Perceptual Sensitivity and Symptom Reporting subscales of the STIP-C and pain intensity measured on the third postoperative day. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Aspects of the pain-sensitive temperament may …