Nurses should be aware of the differences experience can make in labor pain, including that:

Question

1. sensory pain for nulliparous women is often greater than for multiparous women during early labor.
2. affective pain for nulliparous women is usually less than for multiparous women throughout the first stage of labor.
3. women with a history of substance abuse experience more pain during labor.
4. multiparous women have more fatigue from labor and so experience more pain.

Answer 1

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1. Correct. Sensory pain is greater for nulliparous women because their reproductive tract structures are less supple.
2. Incorrect. Affective pain is greater for nulliparous women during the first stage but de-creases for both nulliparous and multiparous during the second stage.
3. Incorrect. Women with a history of substance abuse experience the same amount of pain as those without.
4. Incorrect. Nulliparous women have longer labors and so experience more fatigue.