Chinese Version of Bolton Pain Assessment Tool and Its Reliability and Validity Testing Among Patients with Cognitive Impairment
Objective To translate the Bolton Pain Assessment Tool into Chinese and test its reliability and validity for patients with cognitive impairment.Methods After translation,cultural adaptation and pre-test,the Chinese version of Bolton Pain Assessment Tool was formed.The convenience sampling meth-od was used to select a total of 49 patients with cognitive impairment admitted to the Department of Neu-rosurgery and Neurology of a tertiary A hospital in Zhenjiang City from September to December 2023 for formal investigation.The reliability and validity were tested.Results The Chinese version of Bolton Pain Assessment Tool contained 6 items,including vocal/verbal and facial expressions,and 2 additional items,including caregiver's opinions and patients'pain during physical therapy.The content validity of the scale was 0.920.The total score of the scale was positively correlated with the total score of Wong-Baker(r=0.787).The Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.717 and the inter-rater reliability was 0.940.Conclusions The Chinese version of Bolton Pain Assessment Tool has good reliability and validity,and can provide a refer-ence tool for pain assessment of patients with cognitive impairment in clinical diagnosis and treatment.
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