Managing pain with leg ulcers is primarily the role of community care nurses providing leg ulcer care in the home setting [22-25]. Up to 50% of community carenursing
time is spent caring for individuals with ulcers [23,26-28], and while there is some evidence of acute pain during dressing changes, there is a paucity of information
on the trajectory of pain over the course of wound healing. The purpose of this study was to describe pain at entry to treatment and at time of healing
in a large cohort of community dwelling adults treated for leg ulcers (venous or mixed etiology). The specific objectives were to: 1) Measure the incidence and prevalence
of pain on admission to community care (baseline) and at time of healing; 2) Describe the characteristics associated with leg ulcer pain at baseline; 3) Identify baseline predictors of leg ulcer pain at time of healing.