Clinical trial NCT04789590: Multidimensional Geriatric Pain Assessment
Official title: Determining the Effectiveness of the Geriatric Pain Measure ın Older Adults Attending a Gynecology Clinic
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Pain
Keywords: Geriatric Pain Measure
Pain Assessment
Elderly Adults
Lead sponsor: Uludag University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-03-09
Enrollment: 100
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 65
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Female patients 65 years of age or older who applied to gynecology clinic.

Brief summary: This descriptive study was conducted on 100 patients who applied to the gynecology outpatient clinic to determine the effectiveness of the Geriatric Pain Measure (GPM) in elderly individuals. The data of the study were collected using the Patient Information Form, the GPM, and the Standardized Mini Mental State Examination (SMMSE). The mean GPM score of the elderly individuals, who had an average age of 70 (65-90), was found to be 27.37 (0-88), the sub-dimension mean scores were 9.52 (0-49.9), 7.14 (0-14.2), 4.76 (0-9.5), 2.38 (0-11.9), and 4.76 (0-11.9) respectively. It was determined that 54% of the patients had mild pain (0-29), 38% of them had moderate pain (30-69), and 8% of them had severe pain (70 and above). The findings of the present study were similar to the results of numerous other studies in which both the same scale and different scales were used to assess pain in elderly individuals.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 65 years and older patients,
* Scoring 23 or above in the Standardized Mini Mental State Examination,
* Have no obstacle to answering questions,
* Not addicted to alcohol or other substances,
* No trauma in the last six months.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients younger than 65,
* Scoring less than 23 points in the Standardized Mini Mental State Examination,
* Who have a situation that prevents them from answering questions,
* Are addicted to alcohol or other substances,
* Trauma in the last six months.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Determining the pain levels of patients aged 65 and over
timeFrame: 4 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bursa
country: Turkey
facility: Bursa Province Public Hospitals Union General Secretariat Health Sciences University Bursa High Specialization Education and Research Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Uludag University
name: AKİF BULUT, Phd Student
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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