Abstract
This study examines the inferences which nursing, physiotherapy and medical students make about pain in others. It examines the effects of profession and length of time in training on such inferences. A sample of 244 subjects was recruited. They completed a questionnaire describing a variety of patients experiencing pain with differing causes. Subjects were asked to rate the level of pain experienced by each patient. It was found that, overall, nurses inferred the greatest degree of pain, then physiotherapists, with medical students inferring least pain. Female medical students inferred more pain than male medical students. The reasons for these professional differences are considered, as are the implications of these findings for the training of clinical assessments of patients in pain.
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