Assessment of Acute Pain Management and Associated Factors among Emergency Surgical Patients in Gondar University Specialized Hospital Emergency Department, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018: Institutional Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 4

Pain severity using NRS among emergency surgical patients in GUSHED, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018 (N=203).

Participants	Pain severity at presentation of ED	p-value	Pain severity at two hours after admission	p-value
All (n=203)	7.67 ±1.89	-	5.19 + 2.35	-
Male ( n=138)	7.57 ± 1.95	p = 0.28	4.92 ± 2.28	p = 0.16
Female (n=65)	7.87 ± 1.77		5.76 ± 2.34
Trauma (n=69)	7.45 ± 2.00	p = 0.016	4.67 ± 2.20	p < 0.001
Non trauma (n=134)	8.09±1.59		6.20 ± 2.33

Data are presented as mean ± SD, Independent sample t test was used to compare the mean pain severity between trauma and non-trauma. p-Value less than 0.05 was significantly significant.