Pain Characteristics in Patients with Tibia Fracture at Somdejphrajaotaksin Maharaj Hospital, Tak Province
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This cross-sectional descriptive study was to describe pain characteristics, factors increasing or decreasing pain, and pain treatment in the patients with tibia fractures in the Somdejphrajaotaksin Maharaj Hospital, Tak province. The sample was 17 patients with tibia fractures. The questionnaire was modified from the short form of McGill Pain Questionnaire in Thai version. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistic and Friedman’s Test. Result as follow: Most cause of bone fracture was motorcycle accident, diagnosed closed fracture and reported only one pain location at the tibia site. On the first day, they had the severity of present pain and continuous pain pattern. After operation for two days, patients had mild pain and brief pain pattern. The quality of pain was described as throbbing, shooting, stabbing, hot-burning, aching, heavy, tender, tiring, sicken, fearful and punishing. The factors increased patients’ pain were movement and walking and those decreased pain were medication, and not movement. Patients’ pain medications used were morphine, pethidine, diclofenac, paracetamol and diazepam. The pain intensity of patients was significantly decreased, after receiving pain medications a day and 2 days of operation (F = 15.77, p < .05). Assessing patients’ pain may help clinicians providing the effective pain management leading to decrease patients’ suffering from pain.
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