Table 2. Baseline Pain-related variables of patients who experienced pain within the past 24 hours (n=123).
| Pain Characteristics | n (%) |
|---|---|
| Pain cause | |
| Cancer | 105 (85.4) |
| Cancer treatment | 9 (7.3) |
| Unrelated to cancer or treatment | 20 (16.3) |
| Number of pain location | |
| 1 | 86 (69.9) |
| 2 | 28 (22.8) |
| 3 | 9 (7.3) |
| Duration of pain | |
| Acute pain (less than 3 months) | 87 (70.7) |
| Chronic pain (more than 3 months) | 31 (25.2) |
| Unknown | 5 (4.1) |
| Episodic pain | 99 (80.5) |
| Pain Pathophysiology | |
| Somatic only | 19 (15.4) |
| Somatic and neuropathic | 25 (20.3) |
| Visceral only | 54 (43.9) |
| Somatic and visceral | 8 (6.5) |
| Neuropathic only | 0 (0.0) |
| Visceral and neuropathic | 5 (4.1) |
| Somatic, visceral and neuropathic | 11 (8.9) |
| Total somatic | 65 (52.8) |
| Total visceral | 75 (61.0) |
| Total neuropathic | 40 (32.5) |