Question
In most healthcare facilities, a scale of pain measurement is used to measure pain from no pain to the worst pain possible. Which level of measurement is used for this scale?
interval
nominal
ratio
ordinal
interval
nominal
ratio
ordinal
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The scale of pain measurement used to measure pain from no pain to the worst pain possible is an **ordinal** level of measurement.
Ordinal scales provide a rank order of items, indicating a relative position (e.g., a patient can describe their pain as mild, moderate, or severe), but they do not provide precise information about the magnitude of difference between those levels.
Ordinal scales provide a rank order of items, indicating a relative position (e.g., a patient can describe their pain as mild, moderate, or severe), but they do not provide precise information about the magnitude of difference between those levels.