Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 2/2008

Evaluation of childhood

The author of the article describes the methods to consider children´s pain, that is a part of providing complet care. The metods are: pictorial, graphic, numeric, verbal and combined. With help of evaluation methods it is possible to find intensity of pain that the child feels. Measuring pain includes physiologic, behavioural, sensoric and cognitive aspects.

Keywords: pain, officiating, evaluation scales.