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Comparative Study
Cross-cultural adaptation of the Burns Specific Pain Anxiety Scale--BSPAS to be used with Brazilian burned patients.
This study aimed at translating and adapting the Burns Specific Pain Anxiety Scale--BSPAS and the Impact of Event Scale--IES into Portuguese; making available two simple, short and easily applicable instruments and describing the study participants according to their scores on the Visual Analogue Scale and the Trait-State Anxiety Inventory. The cross-cultural adaptation process involved the following steps: translation of the scales; reaching a consensus in Portuguese; evaluation by an expert committee; back-translation; obtaining a consensus in Dutch; comparing the original versions with the consensus in Dutch; semantic analysis and pretest of the Portuguese versions. ⋯ Participants' average pain scores were higher after bathing and wound dressing. Participants' average anxiety scores were low or medium.
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Stress is clearly present in nursing work. This article presents an exploratory study carried out among emergency unit nurses from hospital institutions, and aimed at determining these professionals' stress level. The sample consisted of 73 emergency unit nurses who work for public and private institutions in the city of São Paulo. ⋯ The results indicated that emergency unit nurses present a medium stress level, and that participants considered E--Work Conditions to perform nursing activities, and F - Activities related to personnel administration, as the most stressful areas. For emergency unit nurses, in spite of the ready and effective action towards the instability of the patient's situation, conditions external to this situation are more stressful than the emergency. Hospitals need to analyze these requisites to allow for decreased stress among emergency nurses.