Children and Their Pain Experience

Abstract

This paper examines how a selected group of children view their pain experience A combination of drawings and interviews was used to study the childs ideas about pain The study population consisted of children ranging in age from 5 to 9 years who were attending an ambulatory, clinic and receiving medical supervision for an acute health problem The child was asked "to draw a picture that shows paro or hurt" A taped interview was carried out, and the child was asked to talk about the picture Data analysis included categorizing the drawings for content such as location of pain, source of pain, and color of pain The interviews were transcribed and content analysis was carried out.