The abbreviated burn specific pain anxiety scale: a multicenter study

Abstract

The authors examined ratings on a scale of pain-related anxiety in 173 burn patients in three groups: patients with small burns, patients with moderate burns and patients with extensive burns. The data suggest a greater degree of anxiety during procedures and before procedures in the burn patients with extensive burns than in burn patients with small and moderate burns. This study introduces a novel measure of pain-related anxiety in clinical burn patients, the abbreviated Burn Specific Pain Anxiety Scale (BSPAS), which showed a high degree of reliability. The alpha coefficients were high for the BSPAS subscales.

Keywords

pain, anxiety, self-report scale, confirmatory factor analyses, NURSES

Citation

Taal, L A, Faber, A W, van Loey, N E E, Reynders, C L L & Hofland, H W C 1999, 'The abbreviated burn specific pain anxiety scale : a multicenter study', Burns, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 493-497. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-4179(99)00034-0