Completed Research Project
Validation of the Modified Resident’s Verbal Brief Pain Inventory (M-RVBPI) in elderly patients in both the acute care and aged care settings
Investigators: Toye
C, Kristjanson
L,
Goucke R, Auret K, Bruce D, Schug S, Nikoletti S & Young
J.
Funding: Edith Cowan University Industry Collaboration
Scheme , Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Church
of Christ Homes ($49,205)
Administering institution: Edith Cowan University
Abstract: Multi-dimensional pain assessment tools are essential to accurately assess pain, but the tools that are available are often lengthy and time consuming to incorporate into routine practice. It was therefore a priority to test a brief multidimensional tool that could adequately assess pain in elderly people while also being brief enough to incorporate into routine practice. Specifically, this study aimed to address the paucity of rigorous brief multidimensional pain assessment tools that are specifically designed to be used in the elderly population through the validation of the modified version of the Brief Pain Inventory (Cleeland, 1989). Tool tested occurred in residential aged care and in the acute hospital setting.
