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- Title:
- Refinement and partial validation of the UNESP-Botucatu multidimensional composite pain scale for assessing postoperative pain in horses
- Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- School of Veterinary Science
- University of Nottingham
- 1746-6148
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
- FAPESP: 2010/00786-6
- FAPESP: 2010/08967-0
- Background: Quantification of pain plays a vital role in the diagnosis and management of pain in animals. In order to refine and validate an acute pain scale for horses a prospective, randomized, blinded study was conducted. Twenty-four client owned adult horses were recruited and allocated to one of four following groups: anaesthesia only (GA); pre-emptive analgesia and anaesthesia (GAA,); anaesthesia, castration and postoperative analgesia (GC); or pre-emptive analgesia, anaesthesia and castration (GCA). One investigator, unaware of the treatment group, assessed all horses at time-points before and after intervention and completed the pain scale. Videos were also obtained at these time-points and were evaluated by a further four blinded evaluators who also completed the scale. The data were used to investigate the relevance, specificity, criterion validity and inter-and intra-observer reliability of each item on the pain scale, and to evaluate construct validity and responsiveness of the scale.Results: Construct validity was demonstrated by the observed differences in scores between the groups, four hours after anaesthetic recovery and before administration of systemic analgesia in the GC group. Inter-and intra-observer reliability for the items was only satisfactory. Subsequently the pain scale was refined, based on results for relevance, specificity and total item correlation.Conclusions: Scale refinement and exclusion of items that did not meet predefined requirements generated a selection of relevant pain behaviours in horses. After further validation for reliability, these may be used to evaluate pain under clinical and experimental conditions.
- 1-Apr-2015
- Bmc Veterinary Research. London: Biomed Central Ltd, v. 11, p. 1-12, 2015.
- 1-12
- Biomed Central Ltd
- Validity
- Reliability
- Responsiveness
- Specificity
- Sensitivity
- Relevance
- Horse
- Pain
- http://www.biomedcentral.com/1746-6148/11/83
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