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INTRODUCTION: It was aimed at evaluating Turkish validity and reliability of the Eastern Ontario Children's Hospital Pain Scale. METHODS: This methodological study was carried out with 60 children who were 1-5 year-aged undergoing a surgical procedure in Zonguldak Obstetrics Gynecology and Children Hospital between April-June 2016. Translation-back translation for the validity of the language, Davis technique for the content validity factor analyses for the construct validity was used. Inter-observer compliance, parallel form reliability, item total correlation and Chronbach alpha coefficient were used for the reliability. RESULTS: There were compatibility among experts' opinions regarding items taking place in scale. For reliability, high correlation rates were obtained from independent observers (researcher-nurse) and forms (Eastern Ontario Children's Hospital Pain Scale-Wong Baker Scale) (98.6%, 94.8%) (94.4%, 94.1%). The results of factor analysis were acceptable and the item-total correlation coefficients were between 0.70 and 0.90, Cronbach's alpha value was 0.912. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The Turkish validity and reliability of the Eastern Ontario Children's Hospital Pain Scale, which was developed by Patrick J. McGrath et al. In the original English language, is high in our country. It is recommended that the scale should be used by Turkish health team members in the evaluation of postoperative pain in children.

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