Psychometric Testing of the Spanish Version of the Pain Level Outcome Scale in Hospitalized Patients With Acute Pain

Abstract

The version with 17 indicators shows good psychometric properties and adequate sensitivity to change. A Spanish version of the Pain Level Outcome Scale with 17 indicators is proposed as a structured multidimensional instrument to help nurses choose the most appropriate indicators for assessing patients' pain.

Psychometric Testing of INTEGRARE, an Instrument for the Assesment of Pressure Ulcer Risk in Inpatients

“…In terms of reliability, the scale yielded high internal consistency ( α = 0.86), which means it has a high reliability, as has the Braden scale ( α = 0.78) (Fulbrook & Anderson, ; García‐Díaz et al., ). INTEGRARE matches the scores obtained by other NOC‐based tools, such as INICIARE ( α = 0.98) (Barrientos‐Trigo, ; Porcel‐Gálvez, ), CoNOCidiet ( α = 0.87) (Martín‐García et al., ), GIPS‐3 ( α = 0.81) (Morilla‐Herrera et al., ), and the Pain Level Outcome Scale ( α = 0.93) (Bellido‐Vallejo et al., ). These data restate the suitability of Standardized Nursing Languages (SNL) as a basis for the development of instruments for assessing and quantifying health outcomes.…”

“…INTEGRARE matches the scores obtained by other NOC-based tools, such as INICIARE (α = 0.98) (Barrientos-Trigo, 2015; Porcel-Gálvez, 2011), CoNOCidiet (α = 0.87) (Martín-García et al, 2014), GIPS-3 (α = 0.81) (Morilla-Herrera et al, 2011), and the Pain Level Outcome Scale (α = 0.93)(Bellido-Vallejo et al, 2016). These data restate the suitability of Standardized Nursing Languages (SNL) as a basis for the development of instruments for assessing and quantifying health outcomes.…”

“…The use of critical indicators reduces the time needed to score the outcomes and improves the reliability of the ratings (Keenan et al., ). There are many instruments based on NOC indicators that have been validated with high methodological quality, such as CoNOCidiet‐diabetes (dietary knowledge in diabetic patients), INICIARE (dependency level in nursing care), GIP‐3 (validation of the diagnosis Ineffective self‐health management 00078 ), CoNOCilam (breastfeeding knowledge in expectant parents), and the Pain Level Outcome Scale (severity of observed or reported pain) (Bellido‐Vallejo, Rodríguez‐Torres, López‐Medina, & Pancorbo‐Hidalgo, ; Martín‐García et al., ; Morales‐Asencio et al., ; Morilla‐Herrera, Morales‐Asencio, Fernández‐Gallego, Berrobianco Cobos, & Delgado Romero, ; Paloma‐Castro et al., ).…”

Evaluation of Acute Pain in Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Cohort Study

“…Acute postoperative (PO) pain control is one of the most important factors for obtaining quality results in hospitalization. Although understanding of the pathophysiology of pain has evolved and pharmacological and technological advances have been made, pain continues to be a symptom constantly experienced by hospitalized patients (Bellido‐Vallejo, Rodríguez‐Torres, López‐Medina, & Pancorbo‐Hidalgo, ). Therefore, assessing pain is of great relevance to all healthcare professionals, because it is difficult to resolve an issue for which there is no measure to base treatment or therapeutic behavior upon (da Silva & Ribeiro‐Filho, ).…”

Psychometric Evaluation of the Nursing Outcome Knowledge: Pain Management in People with Chronic Pain

“…Since the KPM indicators are the specific elements that measure particular aspects of knowledge, their adaptation is especially relevant so that patients are able to understand what information is being requested from them and so that they can convey precise answers, and professionals are able to distinguish between ignorance and knowledge in the different dimensions that make up the KPM outcome. On the basis of the data from this study and other similar studies [43,44], this translation and cultural adaptation process results in a clearer and more comprehensible wording of the outcome definition and its indicators than that obtained by directly translating it from English into Spanish without expert assessment.…”