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Table 2 Pain characteristics at baseline and time of healing

From: Leg ulcer nursing care in the community: a prospective cohort study of the symptom of pain

Characteristics2

 

Baseline (All)

Healing (All)

Healing (Pain group)

  

(n=408)

(n=349)

(n=111)

McGill Pain Indices†

Sensory

15.2 [6.1/27.3]

0.0 [0.0/3.0]

3.0 [3.0/9.1]

Affective

0.0 [0.0/8.3]

0.0 [0.0/0.0]

0.0 [0.0/0.0]

Total

11.1 [4.4/22.2]

0.0 [0.0/2.2]

2.2 [2.2/6.7]

PPI-VAS†

 

2.0 [0.70/4.2]

0.0 [0.0/0.3]

0.50 [0.30/1.3]

PPI-VAS

≤3

250 (63.1)

330 (96.5)

99 (89.2)

>3

146 (36.9)

12 (3.5)

12 (10.8)

Pain interference with normal work

Not at all

87 (21.4)

151 (43.4)

25 (22.5)

A little bit

105 (25.9)

127 (36.5)

53 (47.7)

Moderately

123 (30.3)

36 (10.3)

14 (12.6)

Quite a bit

79 (19.5)

30 (8.6)

15 (13.5)

 

Extremely

12 (3.0)

4 (1.1)

4 (3.6)

  1. 2Values in parentheses are percentages unless indicated otherwise; frequency values may not always total 100% due to missing data; †values are median [percentiles]. PPI=Present Pain Intensity; VAS=Visual Analogue Scale.
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