Author Question: How is pain perception best defined? 1. Pain perception is based on the client's culture and ... (Read 157 times)

Zulu123 · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

How is pain perception best defined?

1. Pain perception is based on the client's culture and previous experience with pain.
2. Pain perception is the conscious experience of pain that occurs in the brain.
3. Pain perception is the unconscious experience of pain that occurs in the brain.
4. Pain perception is the pain score rating for a client before drug therapy begins.

Question 2

Gate control therapy proposes a mechanism to explain which phenomenon?

1. Pain modulation
2. Pain transmission
3. Pain perception
4. Pain transduction

KKcool · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: Pain experience and culture can influence how a client reacts to pain, but perception occurs the same way for all clients.
Rationale 2: Pain perception is the conscious experience of pain that occurs in the brain.
Rationale 3: Pain perception occurs in the brain, but is a conscious, rather than unconscious, experience.
Rationale 4: Pain perception occurs independently of any pain score or timing in drug therapy.
Global Rationale: Pain perception is the conscious experience of pain that occurs in the brain. Pain experience and culture can influence how a client reacts to pain, but perception occurs the same way for all clients. Pain perception occurs in the brain, but is a conscious, rather than unconscious, experience. Pain perception occurs independently of any pain score or timing in drug therapy.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: The gate control theory does not explain pain modulation.
Rationale 2: The gate control theory explains pain transmission in the spinal cord.
Rationale 3: The gate control theory does not explain pain perception.
Rationale 4: The gate control theory does not involve pain transduction.
Global Rationale: The gate control theory explains pain transmission in the spinal cord. The gate control theory does not explain pain modulation, pain perception, or pain transduction.