How Well Ethiopian Parents Assess and Manage Their Children's Postoperative Pain: Descriptive Correlational Study

This descriptive correlational study was conducted among 102 parents with children aged between 2 and 12 undergoing elective surgical procedures. Parental use of pain relief strategies (PURPS) and parental postoperative pain management (PPPM) tools were used to collect data on the adequacy of knowledge of the use of different pain relief strategies and the skill of parental pain assessment, respectively. We used Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationships between pain score given by parents and nurses. The statistical tests were performed at a 95% confidence interval and a 5% significance level.