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 | Â | Baseline (All) | Healing (All) | Healing (Pain group) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | (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) | |
| Â | Extremely | 12 (3.0) | 4 (1.1) | 4 (3.6) |