Validation of the Persian Version of Premature Infant Pain Profile-Revised in Hospitalized Infants at the Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Abstract

Background: Premature infants undergo several painful procedures in the neonatal intensive care units leading to many shortterm and long-term detrimental effects on their health. Identifying pain in infants is complex because they are not able to express pain verbally. Hence, using a validated tool to assess pain in infants is essential to ensure effective control of pain.

Investigating the psychometric properties of the Persian version of Neonatal Pain, agitation, and sedation scale

“…20 The validity and reliability of PIPP have been performed in Iran and it has been introduced as a standard tool for pain assessment in infants. 21 Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to determine the internal consistency of the pain part of the tool, and for reliability between the evaluators the correlation of the scores obtained from both was examined.…”