Informations générales (source: ClinicalTrials.gov)
INTERNATIONAL VALIDATION STUDY OF THE ALGOPLUS SCALE IN FIVE LANGUAGES (ALGOPLUS LE)
Observational
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand (Voir sur ClinicalTrials)
janvier 2014
janvier 2015
29 juin 2024
Acute pain is responsible for unnecessary suffering. Among elderly patients, acute pain
is frequent and underestimated, especially when these patients have cognitive disorders.
The expression of pain is then modified and the conventional tools for evaluating pain
cannot be used. Thus the existence of pain must be detected on the basis of a behavioural
assessment.
It is nonetheless necessary to have the assistance of standardised and validated tools.
In France, the Doloplus Group has proposed a scale called Doloplus, validated in January
1999, and is now proposing a new scale for acute pain, Algoplus that has been validated
in French (4). Doloplus has been recently translated and validated in 5 languages and an
identical methodology will be used in this protocol.
Internationally, although several teams are working on the development of scales that can
be used for non-communicating elderly subjects, there is as yet no validated tool for
acute pain assessment.
Considering 1- the lack of tools at an international level and 2- the frequent request
from many practitioners worldwide, the Doloplus group has offered to validate the
Algoplus® scale in 5 foreign languages, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. A
rigorous methodology with the help of a statistician will be used in this validation
process.
Etablissements
| Les établissements hors Île-de-France dont les données sont issues de ClinicalTrials.gov Origine et niveau de fiabilité des données | |||||
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| CHU de Clermont-Ferrand - 63003 - Clermont-Ferrand - France | Patrick LACARIN | Contact (sur clinicalTrials) | |||
Critères
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Inclusion Criteria:
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- males or females aged 65 or above 65, with communication disorders
- with or without suspected acute pain
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- males or females aged 65 or above 65, with communication disorders
- with or without suspected acute pain
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- are too agitated,
- have acute pain needing immediate pain management,
- change of treatment between the two evaluations ( t and t+4 hours ),
- refuse to participate