The Farver-Campos Labor Coping Scale As a Replacement for the 10-Point Pain Scale for Labor

Overview

Journal J Perinat Educ

Publisher Springer

Date 2024 Nov 20

PMID 39564385

Authors

Marie-Celine Farver

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Abstract

The 10-point pain scale was developed to avoid undertreated pain in the hospital setting. Developed in a Veterans Administration hospital for medical-surgical patients in 2003, the 10-point pain scale was adopted in health care as part of the "pain as the fifth vital sign" initiative. The pain scale was implemented in maternity care as part of a general hospital initiative. Assessing coping is more appropriate to the labor process than focusing on pain or its avoidance. The Farver-Campos Labor Coping Scale is evidence-based and promotes vaginal birth and personal labor care by guiding nurses and laboring women through a number of coping options. The scale is an appropriate tool to replace the 10-point pain scale in the maternity care setting.

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