the CAPS is a set of two faces scales, composed of 5 drawn faces each, for assessing pain and anxiety/fear in chldren aged from 4 to 10. Indication lack on how these towo dimensions of pain and anxiety might combine in an overall experience of distress, about their relative importnce, on how they are modulated by previous pain experiences, and as regards the perceptual metrics of the two sets of scales ( often ...
The Children's Anxiety and Pain Scales - CAPS (Kuttner & LePage, 1989) is the only faces measure to date aimed at separately assessing anxiety and pain intensity through self-report. Despite early indications that the two sets of faces retained in the CAPS possess some face validity regarding the constructs of anxiety/fear and pain, the degree to which they afford a means of differentiating them has remained qu...
Tese de doutoramento em Psicologia, na especialidade de Psicologia Experimental, apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Coimbra
Abstract title A comparison of the functional importance of pain expressions in the Wong-Baker and the FPS-R pain scales Background and aims One often raised issue about faces pain scales concerns the preference of children for one or another available scale. This work contends that an equally significant but different issue is the importance children accord to faces within a scale as expressive conveyers of...
CHILDREN'S TACIT UNDERSTANDING OF PAIN AND FEAR/ANXIETY COMBINATIONS Abstract text Background and aims: Children's experiences of pain are believed to include both sensory and affective components. One practical issue facing caregivers and health professionals is the importance to accord to each of these dimensions. This work is aimed at exploring how children themselves conceive of the relative importance of...
A functional look at the concept validity of the CAPS's pain and anxiety faces scales. Introduction and Aims The CAPS is a set of two face scales, composed of 5 drawn faces each, for evaluating pain intensity and anxiety in children. The goal of the present study was to assess whether the two sets of faces actually address distinct constructs. Rather than looking at convergent validity, it did so by examining...
A esquizofrenia é uma das perturbações psiquiátricas mais complexas e severas, iniciando-se normalmente durante o final da adolescência ou no início da idade adulta, e é muitas vezes responsável por decréscimos severos no funcionamento do individuo. Embora a natureza bizarra da sua fenomenologia tenha levado a que esta perturbação tenha sido rotulada de “anormal”, perspetivas evolucionárias recentes sobre a psi...
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