Hospital Stress and Patient Reports of Pain and Physical Status
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Human Stress
- Vol. 4 (2), 28-37
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840x.1978.9934984
Abstract
The Hospital Stress Rating Scale was used to measure stress due to the experience of hospitalization for 535 medical and surgical patients in a community hospital. Patients were also asked to rate the pain they experienced on a pain thermometer, and a recovery inventory was used to score patient self-reports of their physical status, both during hospitalization and subsequent to discharge. With statistical control for patient characteristics correlated with self-reports of pain and physical status, associations between hospital stress and these variables were observed. Patients scoring high in hospital stress tended to report more pain, lower physical status during hospitalization, and less improvement after discharge than patients scoring low in hospital stress.Keywords
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