| Questionnaire items |
Factor 1 Analgesic Treatment
Practices |
Factor 2 Emotional Support
|
Factor 3 Physical Methods
|
Factor 4 Specific Methods |
| 1. Providing pain medication prior to painful events
(such as dressing or wound healing) (n=323) |
0.711 |
|
|
|
| 2. Providing pain medication prior to physical
activity (n=322) |
0.659 |
|
|
|
| 3. Assessment and documentation of effects of
analgesics (n=320) |
0.559 |
|
|
|
| 4. Providing pain medication regularly (n=323) |
0.472 |
|
|
|
| 5. Administering analgesics around the clock (n=321) |
0.416 |
|
|
|
| 6. Assessing pain by means of pain scales (n=312) |
0.374 |
|
|
|
| 7. Assessment for pain at least every four hours
(n=316) |
0.353 |
|
|
|
| 8. Quieting and consoling (n=323) |
|
0.745 |
|
|
| 9. Soothing, supportive touch (n=327) |
|
0.688 |
|
|
| 10. Presence when patient seems to be in pain (n=329) |
|
0.551 |
|
|
| 11. Music therapy (n=326) |
|
|
0.680 |
|
| 12. Heat therapy (e.g. warm bags) (n=318) |
|
|
0.613 |
|
| 13. Peaceful and comfort environment (quiet, lights,
air conditioning) (n=324) |
|
|
0.552 |
|
| 14. Helping with daily activities (e.g.
washing, dressing) (n=327) |
|
|
|
0.773 |
| 15. Repositioning (n=325) |
|
|
|
0.602 |
| 16. By using cold therapy (e.g. cold bags) in
pain relief (n=326) |
|
|
|
0.328 |
| Spearman’s correlation coefficients for individual
items with each subscales (for total scale 0.311- 0.601) |
0.480 - 0.696 |
0.757- 0.806 |
0.692-0.796 |
0.692- 0.799 |
| Eigenvalue |
3.75 |
1.85 |
1.701 |
1.306 |
Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy: 0.76, Barthlett’s test of sphericity significance: p < 0.001.
* Only >0.30 Factor loadings are presented. Extraction method is Maximum Likelihood Rotation method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalisation.