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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Transcult Nurs. 2009 Oct;20(4):358–370. doi: 10.1177/1043659609334932

Table 3.

Differences in the cancer pain scores according to the country of birth

Outside the U.S In the U.S
M SD M SD t (216) p-value
VDS 1.29 1.30 1.82 1.15 2.85 .0047
VAS 28.36 31.12 41.03 27.89 2.85 .0048
FS 2.78 1.59 3.33 1.27 2.52 .0124
MPQ-SF 6.97 10.31 11.03 9.37 2.74 .0066
BPI 32.01 28.11 43.15 27.25 2.71 .0072

Note: N (born outside the U.S) = 152; N (born in the U.S) = 66