Painful Memories: Reliability of Pain Intensity Recall at 3 Months in Senior Patients
Table 2
Between-group differences on variables that could affect the recall of pain.
Characteristics
Underestimate
Correctly estimate
Overestimate
Sig.
Mean (±SD) age
77.5 (7.2)
76.6 (7.0)
76.1 (7.5)
n.s.
Male (%)
28.4
25.7
28.0
n.s.
Education level (%)
High school or lower
51.1
63.3
51.2
n.s.
Living alone (%)
36.4
37.6
40.2
n.s.
Adequate social support (%)
70.9
76.4
81.9
n.s.
Mean (SD) number of medications
3.6 (3.2)
5.2 (4.4)
4.6 (3.3)
<0.011
Mean (SD) number of comorbidities
4.1 (2.3)
4.8 (2.8)
4.5 (2.6)
n.s.
3 months
ADL: ≥13/14 (%)
91.0
91.1
92.5
n.s.
IADL: ≥13/14 (%)
76.1
78.8
82.2
n.s.
3 months
TICS: MCI ≤ 31 (%)
14.3
11.2
9.2
n.s.
TICS: dementia ≤ 27 (%)
10.7
8.3
8.3
Mean (SD) pain intensity at ED visit
4.7 (2.9)
5.0 (3.1)
6.1 (2.8)
<0.0012
Mean (SD) pain intensity at 3 months
2.6 (2.5)
3.5 (2.8)
3.3 (2.6)
n.s.
Sig.: level of significance of Chi-square tests for categorical variables and of one-way ANOVA for continuous variables; n.s.: nonsignificant; ADL: activities of daily living; IADL: instrumental activities of daily living; TICS: telephone interview for cognitive status; MCI: mild cognitive impairment; > underestimate; > ().
