Evaluation of pain and its therapeutic management

According to the IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain): "Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, related to an actual or potential tissue lesion, or described in terms of such a lesion. It is a personal and subjective phenomenon, it is not systematically linked to a lesion and everyone feels it differently. This makes it difficult to quantify and qualify in general, knowing that its evaluation is an essential prerequisite to any therapeutic approach. On the other hand, despite the multiple recommendations of the WHO, analgesics in general and morphine in particular are not always used appropriately. The objective of our work was, firstly, to provide Moroccan physicians with a multidimensional pain assessment tool validated in Arabic and adapted to our culture. Secondly, to evaluate the therapeutic management of pain by assessing the prescription of analgesics, mainly morphine by our doctors. To achieve the first objective, we collected data using a version of the "Multidimensional Pain Inventory".