The Paediatric Pain Profile is a pain assessment tool for non-verbal children with severe and complex disability. The tool incorporates a validated 20-item behaviour rating scale with scores ranging from 0 to 60. In early studies, scores of 14 and over have been associated with moderate or worse pain. The tool emphasises the need for partnership between parent and professional in assessing and managing children’s pain.
Technology No. 89-059
Paediatric Pain Profile

PPP

The PPP tool is available for download as a PDF document. If you wish to download the tool, please choose the appropriate Terms & Conditions for your usage by selecting 'View Terms' for the various licence options displayed on the left hand side of this screen. 

 
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Product Description
 
Severe physical and learning impairment is a feature of many chronic and disabling conditions in children. These children have many potential sources of pain. Pains may arise from the disease process itself (e.g. neuropathic pain or muscle spasm), be secondary to the disease (e.g. musculoskeletal pain or pain from reflux oesophagitis) or incidental (e.g. a toothache or otitis media). However, because the children have difficulty in communicating their pain it can go unrecognised and untreated. It is the child's behaviour often, rather than their verbal report, which has to be interpreted to determine if they have pain. Because it can be difficult sometimes for parents and for health care professionals to distinguish which behaviours do indicate pain and to follow the progress of pain relieving treatments, we have developed a pain assessment scale specifically for this population of children.  
 
The scale consists of 20 types of behaviour each rated on a 4 point scale (0-3) according to the extent to which a behaviour occurs within a given time frame (from “not at all” to “a great deal”. The total score will range from 0 to 60.  
 
We have ‘packaged’ the scale along with other forms which may be used in documenting the context of the behaviours and actions taken, for instance, it is helpful to record on the “baseline” how the child behaves “at their best” or “on a good day”.
 

Translations into Urdu, Punjabi, Norwegian, Danish, Italian and German are also made available for download by licensed users. Some other language translations might be available from the authors. Please contact us using the button in the sidebar to enquire about other translations.

 
For further information about the PPP tool, please visit the PPP website
 

PPP Non-Exclusive Licence (Commercial Training and Teaching)
Discounted package: 300 copies for £900. Additional copies available at £10 per copy. Commercial Training and Teaching licence allowing the product to be used and translated by the Licensee and its affiliates for commercial training and teaching purposes only.

Term: perpetual

Price per unit:
£900.00 excl. VAT

PPP Non-Exclusive Licence (Commercial Training and Teaching)
Commercial Training and Teaching licence allowing the product to be used and translated by the Licensee and its affiliates for commercial training and teaching purposes only.

Term: perpetual

Price per unit:
£5.00 excl. VAT

PPP Non-Exclusive Licence (Commercial Use)
Discounted package: 300 copies for £1800. Additional copies available at £10 per copy.Commercial use licence allowing the product to be used and translated by the Licensee and its affiliates and contractors for commercial purpose.

Term: perpetual

Price per unit:
£1,800.00 excl. VAT

PPP Non-Exclusive Licence (Commercial Use)
Commercial use licence allowing the product to be used and translated by the Licensee and its affiliates and contractors for commercial purpose.

Term: perpetual

Price per unit:
£10.00 excl. VAT

PPP Non-Exclusive Licence (Non-commercial Use)
For not-for-profit organisations and professional carers.

Term: perpetual

Price per unit:
£0.00 excl. VAT

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