This pilot, descriptive and field exploratory study aimed to verify the representative of the quality of pain, applying the Pain Quality Cards to 50 children and teenagers hospitalized in the first half of 2004, after being approved by the Ethic Commission. Results have shown that there is no relationship between the age group and the number of positive answers. The identification of the cards was different to each group, 61,1% of the cards were identified for the pre-scholar, 77,8% for the scholar and 27,8 for the teenagers. The use of the instrument has revealed itself successful and able to evaluate, discriminate and measure the different dimensions of pain.
pain measurement; child; nursing
