• Charmaine Kleiber, Marisa Suwanraj, Lori A Dolan, Mary Berg, and Amanda Kleese.
• College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. charmaine-kleiber@uiowa.edu
• J Spec Pediatr Nurs. 2007 Jul 1;12(3):149-58.

PurposeTo describe the relationship between pain-sensitive temperament and self-report of pain intensity following surgery.Design And MethodsFifty-nine adolescents and young adults (average age 14 years) undergoing spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis completed the Sensitivity Temperament Inventory for Pain-Child version (STIP-C). The Pearson correlation between STIP-C scores and the highest pain intensity for each of the first three postoperative days was investigated.ResultsThere was a small but significant correlation between the Perceptual Sensitivity and Symptom Reporting subscales of the STIP-C and pain intensity measured on the third postoperative day.Practice ImplicationsAspects of the pain-sensitive temperament may be important in understanding the variability in postoperative pain. This is the first investigation of the relationship between pain-sensitive temperament and surgical pain. More research is needed in this area.

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