• Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Mar 2014

    Validation of the critical-care pain observation tool in adult critically ill patients.

    • Paul Buttes, Ginger Keal, Sherill Nones Cronin, Laurel Stocks, and Cheryl Stout.
    • Paul Buttes, MSN, RN, CNML, is nurse manager at Baptist Health Louisville, Kentucky. Ginger Keal, BSN, RN, CNML, is nurse manager at Baptist Health Louisville, Kentucky. Sherill Nones Cronin, PhD, RN, BC, is professor of nursing at Bellarmine University, Kentucky. Laurel Stocks, MSN, APRN, RN, CCNS, is nurse practitioner at University of Louisville Healthcare, Kentucky. Cheryl Stout, MSN, RN, CENP, nursing director at Baptist Health Louisville, Kentucky.
    • Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2014 Mar 1;33(2):78-81.

    BackgroundEffective management of pain begins with accurate assessment of its presence and severity, which is difficult in critically ill patients. The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) was developed to evaluate behaviors associated with pain and validated primarily with cardiac surgical patients.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine reliability and validity of the CPOT in a general population of adult, critically ill patients.MethodsUsing a sample of 75 patients from critical care units of a community hospital, pain was evaluated at 3 times (prerepositioning, during repositioning, and postrepositioning) by 2 evaluators, using 3 different pain scales: CPOT; Faces, Legs, Activity, Cry, and Consolability (FLACC) scale; and Pain Intensity Numeric Rating Scale.ResultsResults indicated that reliability and validity of the CPOT were acceptable. Interrater reliability was supported by strong intraclass correlations (ranging from 0.74 to 0.91). For criterion-related validity, significant associations were found between CPOT scores and both FLACC (0.87-0.92) and Pain Intensity Numeric Rating Scale (0.50-0.69) scores. Discriminant validity was supported by significantly higher scores during repositioning (mean, 1.85) versus at rest (pre mean, 0.60; post mean, 0.65).DiscussionThe CPOT is an acceptable behavioral pain assessment scale for use in the general critical care patient population and is more appropriate for use with adults than the FLACC.

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