Concordancia entre médicos veterinarios que trabajan en Chile en el reconocimiento del dolor en equinos

IF 0.2 4区 农林科学 Q2 Veterinary
D. Fernández, Tamara Alejandra Tadich Gallo, José Manuel Yañez López
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Pain is a relevant component of animal welfare, and its appropriate recognition is essential for the establishment of effective analgesic therapy. The aim of this study was to determine the level of agreement in the recognition of pain in equines among veterinarians (equine practitioners). The effects of gender and age on pain recognition were also studied. The equine practitioners were asked to use a simple descriptive scale to score 25 digital color photographs of horses experiencing different painful conditions. The kappa coefficient for multiple raters was used to determine the degree of agreement. Descriptive statistics was used to estimate the severity of the pain, and the Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test was used to determine the effect of the rater’s gender and age. Thirty-four equine practitioners replied to the questionnaire. A poor level of agreement between equine practitioners was found (Global kappa=0.2871, CI 95%= 0.2032-0.3702); the agreement was stronger for those painful conditions with higher scores (maximum pain). No significant differences (P>0.05) were found for pain scoring in relation to the practitioner’s age and gender. This study is the first in Chile to explore the level of agreement in the recognition of pain in equines. It emphasizes the poor level of agreement between equine practitioners in the recognition of pain, which could compromise the establishment of appropriate analgesic treatments and result in poor animal welfare. Further studies are required to determine and promote understanding of the factors affecting veterinarians’ attitudes towards the recognition and management of pain in equine species.
在智利工作的兽医在识别马疼痛方面的一致性
疼痛是动物福利的一个相关组成部分,它的适当认识是必不可少的建立有效的镇痛治疗。本研究的目的是确定兽医师(马从业人员)对马疼痛的认知水平。研究了性别和年龄对疼痛识别的影响。马从业者被要求使用简单的描述性量表对25张经历不同疼痛状况的马的数码彩色照片进行评分。使用多重评分者的kappa系数来确定一致性程度。采用描述性统计估计疼痛的严重程度,采用Kruskal-Wallis非参数检验确定评分者性别和年龄的影响。34名马术从业者回答了调查问卷。马从业者之间的一致性较差(Global kappa=0.2871, CI 95%= 0.2032-0.3702);对于那些分数更高的疼痛状况(最大疼痛),这种一致性更强。疼痛评分与执业医师年龄、性别的关系无统计学差异(P < 0.05)。这项研究是智利首次探索马在疼痛识别方面的一致程度。它强调了马从业者之间在疼痛识别方面的不良协议水平,这可能会损害适当镇痛治疗的建立,并导致动物福利不佳。需要进一步的研究来确定和促进对影响兽医对马类疼痛的认识和管理态度的因素的理解。
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Veterinaria Mexico
Veterinaria Mexico VETERINARY SCIENCES-
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期刊介绍: Veterinaria México OA (ISSN 2448-6760) is an online scientific journal edited by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The journal is Open Access and follows UNAM''s initiative, to transmit knowledge free of charge to the readership and authors, with no Article Processing Charges. This journal publishes advances in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Production, and to reach more lectures across the world the journal was updated since 2014 from its predecessor printed in paper Veterinaria México (ISSN 0301-5092) and its digital version (ISSN 2007-5472).
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