The evaluation of quality of life (QOL) faced with chronic ischemic pain involves the clients in their subjectivity and multidimensionality. This descriptive study aimed to evaluate the quality of life of clients who presented chronic ischemic pain. A total of 100 clients of hospital institutes participated in the study. The instrument used to assess pain was an 11 point numerical scale, and to assess Evaluación de la calidad de vida en clientes con dolor crónico isquémicoLa evaluación de la calidad de vida (CV) frente al dolor crónico isquémico debe considerar la subjetividad del cliente y las múltiples dimensiones envueltas. Este estudio descriptivo tuvo como objetivo evaluar la calidad de vida de clientes que manifestaron dolor crónico isquémico. Participaron de la investigación 100 clientes de instituciones hospitalarias. El instrumento aplicado para evaluar el dolor fue la escala numérica de 11 puntos y para la calidad de vida, el cuestionario World Health Organization Quality of Life abreviado. El promedio aritmético para el dolor crónico fue de 5,59±3,16 puntos. Los promedios para la calidad de vida fueron: en el dominio físico, 44,75±16,98; en el global, 50,0±22,40; en el ambiental, 55,06±13,51; en el psicológico, 56,21±17,19 y en el social, 68,33±21,84.Así, el dominio físico fue, entre los dominios analizados, el que presentó un mayor impacto sobre la calidad de vida de los clientes con dolor crónico isquémico.

This research tries to bring to health care an original method for measuring low back pain. It is noteworthy that in the future, more research is needed to apply this method in clinical and scientific fields.

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Objective: Evaluate the perception of pain in the fibromyalgia through the quantitative and qualitative methodological technique. Method: A total of 30 patients were assessed through an interview analyzed by the thematic content and through the instrument Descriptors of Pain. Arithmetic mean and standard error were used to determine which descriptors better characterize the pain in the fibromyalgia. Results and Discussion: The result of the content analysis was the construction of categories of analysis regarding the perceptions of: diagnosis, motivation, disease, feelings, thoughts and repercussions on the quality of life. The Descriptors of Pain instrument revealed the descriptors of higher attribution in the characterization of pain were inconvenient, spreading, pulsating, uncomfortable and persistent and the descriptors with the lower attribution were miserable, demoniac, cursed, terrifying and frightening. The two instruments showed the patients' tendency in perceiving and reporting the pain regarding to the sensorial-discriminating characteristics. In addition, data related to the importance of the family's and the health professional's roles in managing the pain were presented. Conclusion: The need to stimulate the perception and expression of patients regarding the pain in its multidimensionality was perceived. It is concluded that the management of pain must be performed considering the complexity of the phenomenon in terms of the triad health team-patient-family.