Journal of advanced nursing
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Comparative Study
Evaluation of the pain response by Mexican American and Anglo American women and their nurses.
This study examined the relationship between ethnicity and pain. The study addressed three major research questions. The first question asked whether there was a significant difference in Mexican American women's and Anglo American women's response to cholecystectomy pain. ⋯ Nurses evaluated the patients' pain as being less than patients did. Pearson product-moment correlations were used to examine the relationship between pain and sample characteristics of both patients and nurses. For the nurses, pain was significantly related to the patient's education, place of birth, language and religion.