Which of These Is NOT True Regarding Pain Measurement

question 75

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT true regarding pain measurement?

• A) There are many objective measures of pain.
• B) The most frequently used measures of pain are based on the patient's verbal or written report.
• C) Chronic pain is what patients report fearing most about illness.
• D) Almost all people suffering from headaches tend to choose the same pattern of words to describe their pain.

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Definitions:

T Distribution

A probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Population Mean

The average of a set of values in the entire population.

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from a sample, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean of the sample.

Z Value

A Z value is a statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean.