DOLOPLUS-2 (behavioral pain assessment)
DOLOPLUS-2 (Wary 2001): a 10-item behavioral pain scale (somatic, psychomotor, psychosocial), each item 0–3; total 0–30, and a score ≥ 5 indicates pain.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Somatic complaints
- 2
- Protective body postures adopted at rest
- 1
- Protection of sore areas
- 1
- Facial expression
- 1
- Sleep pattern
- 0
- Washing and/or dressing
- 0
- Mobility
- 0
- Communication
- 0
- Social life
- 0
- Behavioral problems
- 0
Result: DOLOPLUS-2 5/30 — pain indicated.
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What the result means
- 0–4
- Below the pain threshold.
- ≥ 5
- Pain indicated (out of 30).
What you enter
- Somatic complaints (0–3)
- Protective body postures adopted at rest (0–3)
- Protection of sore areas (0–3)
- Facial expression (0–3)
- Sleep pattern (0–3)
- Washing and/or dressing (0–3)
- Mobility (0–3)
- Communication (0–3)
- Social life (0–3)
- Behavioral problems (0–3)
How this is calculated
Wary B, Doloplus collective; Lefebvre-Chapiro S. The Doloplus-2 scale — evaluating pain in the elderly. Eur J Palliat Care. 2001;8(5):191-194. Read the source ↗
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