International Validation Study Of The Algoplus Scale In Five Languages

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Pain
• Elderly
• Communication Disorders

Interventions

OTHER

algoplus

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Dr M Fisher Dr. Ulrike Bornschlegel

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr M Schuler

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Pat Schofield

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr D Lussier

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr S Gibson

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Joan ESPAULELLA PANICOT

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Joan Manuel PEREZ CASTEJON

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Gambassi, Giovanni, M.D.

  collaborator INDIV

• Dr Patrizio ODETTI

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Fiametta MONACELLI

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University Hospital, Grenoble

  collaborator OTHER

• Dr Hirondina GUARDA, Dr Sónia SANTOS

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Gisèle PICKERING

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Valérie LEGOUT

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Patrice Rat

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Dr Bernard WARY

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Gisèle PICKERING · CHU de Clermont-Ferrand

Eligibility

Min Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-01-31

Primary Completion

2014-10-31

Completion

2015-01-31

Countries

• France

Study Locations