Abstract
Objective: Evaluation of pain in patients with cervical cancer treated at Sergipe Emergency Hospital (HUSE), both from a qualitative and quantitative point of view. Methods: Quantitative, descriptive, exploratory, cross-sectional study, carried out at the HUSE Oncology Outpatient Clinic, in the municipality of Aracaju, between 2010 and 2014. The research was conducted on 53 patients diagnosed and treated with cervical cancer and data collection was done through questionnaires, such as Mcgill's and the Visual Analog Scale. Results: The pain was a phenomenon reported by 34 patients (64.1%), either in diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation or in more than one of these stages. As for pain intensity, 22 interviewees (41.5%) presented intense pain and 19 (35.8%) presented no pain. When analyzing the pain descriptors, it was observed that among the 34 patients who reported the pain, the sensory category was preponderant, followed by the affective one. The most used sensitive descriptor was fine pain with 10.6%, but in the affective character it was nauseated pain with 22.9%. Conclusion: Intense pain was present in most patients at some stage of the disease and the sensory character of the complaint was predominant in the study.