Development and Testing of the Pain Assessment Tool in Cognitively Impaired Elders (PATCIE): Nonverbal Pain Behaviors in African American and Caucasian Nursing Home Residents with Dementia

People with dementia experience a decline in language skills required to self-report pain; researchers thus recommend the use of nonverbal behaviors to assess pain. Although multiple instruments exist for assessing nonverbal pain behaviors, psychometric data are lacking for African American nursing home residents with dementia.

Source: Pain Management Nursing - October 7, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Sheila A. Richey, Elizabeth Capezuti, Stanley G. Cron, David Reed, Isabel Torres-Vigil, Marcia C. de Oliveira Otto Tags: Original Article Source Type: research