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Title: Self-reported pain intensity with the numeric reporting scale in adult dengue
Authors: Wong J.G.X.
Gan V.C.
Ng E.-L.
Leo Y.-S. 
Chan S.-P.
Choo R.
Lye D.C. 
Keywords: abdominal pain
acute disease
adult
age distribution
article
clinical examination
cohort analysis
comorbidity
demography
dengue
disease course
disease severity
ethnic difference
female
human
laboratory test
major clinical study
male
numeric rating scale
pain assessment
prediction
prevalence
prospective study
self report
sex difference
Singapore
structural equation modeling
abdominal pain
dengue
ethnology
middle aged
pain measurement
pathology
procedures
young adult
Abdominal Pain
Adult
Dengue
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pain Measurement
Prospective Studies
Self Report
Singapore
Young Adult
Issue Date: 2014
Citation: Wong J.G.X., Gan V.C., Ng E.-L., Leo Y.-S., Chan S.-P., Choo R., Lye D.C. (2014). Self-reported pain intensity with the numeric reporting scale in adult dengue. PLoS ONE 9 (5) : e96514. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096514
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Background: Pain is a prominent feature of acute dengue as well as a clinical criterion in World Health Organization guidelines in diagnosing dengue. We conducted a prospective cohort study to compare levels of pain during acute dengue between different ethnicities and dengue severity. Methods: Demographic, clinical and laboratory data were collected. Data on self-reported pain was collected using the 11-point Numerical Rating Scale. Generalized structural equation models were built to predict progression to severe disease. Results: A total of 499 laboratory confirmed dengue patients were recruited in the Prospective Adult Dengue Study at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. We found no statistically significant differences between pain score with age, gender, ethnicity or the presence of co-morbidity. Pain score was not predictive of dengue severity but highly correlated to patients' day of illness. Prevalence of abdominal pain in our cohort was 19%. There was no difference in abdominal pain score between grades of dengue severity. Conclusion: Dengue is a painful disease. Patients suffer more pain at the earlier phase of illness. However, pain score cannot be used to predict a patient's progression to severe disease. © 2014 Wong et al.
Source Title: PLoS ONE
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/161415
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096514
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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