Differences in nurses’ perceptions of self-reported pain and the administered morphine dose according to the patient’s facial expression in Korea

This study aimed to compare nurses’ perceptions of self-reported pain, the recorded pain score, and pain treatment according to the patient’s facial expression. In this descriptive cross-sectional survey, the participants were 482 nurses working at a tertiary hospital in Seoul, Korea. A self-report questionnaire presented nurses with a smiling patient complaining of acute post-surgical pain and a grimacing patient with cancer pain, both of whom reported a pain level of 8 out of 10, and asked nurses to indicate their perception of the pain intensity, the pain score that they would record, and the medication that they would provide for each patient.

本研究旨在对比护士基于患者面部表情，对患者自我报告疼痛、所记录疼痛评分及疼痛治疗措施的认知差异。本研究为描述性横断面调查，研究对象为韩国首尔某三级医院的482名在职护士。研究人员通过自填问卷向参与护士展示两份患者案例：一位面带微笑但主诉急性术后疼痛的患者，以及一位面露痛苦表情的癌症疼痛患者，两名患者均自我报告疼痛评分为8/10；随后要求护士分别说明自身对每位患者的疼痛强度的认知、将记录的疼痛评分，以及将为其提供的镇痛药物。