Tools to Assess Pain or Lack of Comfort in Dementia: A Content Analysis
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11120%2F15%3A43910371" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11120/15:43910371 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/15:10317551
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.05.015" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.05.015</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.05.015" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.05.015</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tools to Assess Pain or Lack of Comfort in Dementia: A Content Analysis
Original language description
There is need for tools to help detect pain or lack of comfort in persons unable to communicate. However, pain and (dis) comfort tools have not been compared, and it is unclear to what extent they discriminate between pain and other possible sources of discomfort, or even if items differ. Objectives. To map and compare items in tools that assess pain and the broader notion of discomfort or comfort in people with severe dementia or at the end of life. Methods. Using qualitative content analysis with sixclassifications, we categorized each item of four thoroughly tested observational pain tools, and four discomfort tools (including distress, comfort, and quality of life in severe dementia or at the end of life; Discomfort ScaleeDementia Alzheimer Type [DS-DAT], Disability Distress Assessment Tool [DisDAT], End-of-Life in Dementia-Comfort Assessment in Dying with Dementia [EOLD-CAD], and Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia [QUALID] scale). We calculated median proportions to compare d
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
FP - Other medical fields
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
ISSN
0885-3924
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
659-"675.e3"
UT code for WoS article
000363433200010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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