Poker Chip Tool Pain Scale. The poker chip scale asks children to quantify their pain in pieces of hurt with more poker chips representing more pain. Poker chip scale uses four poker chips as pieces of hurt which the child uses to indicate how much pain they are feeling kohntopp 2011.
Artwork guidelines and templates are available to download in adobe illustrator format here and in pdf format for other users here. Infants to children 6 years. As school age children learn the proportionality of numbers and colors they can generally use the same scales as adults e g vas numerical rating scale.
Your child will be asked to point to the color that shows how much pain he is in.
One chip represents a small amount of pain and 4 chips is the most amount of pain. Your child will be asked to point to the color that shows how much pain he is in. Rating scales applicable to infants and preverbal children. The wong baker faces pain scale has six faces.
