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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain Manag Nurs. 2010 Jul 3;14(2):85–93. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2010.02.004

Table 4.

Differences in demographic and clinical characteristics for each of the three most frequently used non=pharmacologic interventions (N=1395)

Calming Voice Information Deep Breathing

Gender
Male 62.9% 63.6% * 39.2%
Female 67.4% 55.7% 35.8%

Ethnicity
White 66.6% 62.4% * 38.9%
African-American 68.8% 55.3% 30.8%
Other 53.3% 45.2% 38.1%

Care level
Critical care 68.2% * 65.2% ** 40.5% **
Specialty floor/
other
60.6% 51.3% 32.8%

Diagnosis
Medical 62.5% 47.9% ** 18.8% **
Surgical 66.3% 64.3% 44.5%
Trauma/burn/other 76.8% 75.0% 38.7%

Turn method
Hands 58.5% ** 56.7% ** 39.0%
Drawsheet 71.2% 66.0% 38.5%
Other 54.8% 35.5% 32.5%

Patient assist
Assisted 64.5% 57.4% ** 37.0%
Did not assist 70.1% 68.0% 41.8%

Opioid premed
Premedicated 70.7% 67.3% 57.6% **
Not premedicated 65.0% 59.7% 32.5%
Calming Voice Information Deep Breathing
Yes No Yes No Yes No

Mean NRS pain
(during turn)
5.3 4.4** 5.2 4.6** 5.6 4.6**

Mean age (years) 63.7 63.1 63.6 63.3 61.1 65.0**

Chi-square tests for categorical variables and t-tests for continuous variables

*

p<.01,

**

p<.001