The principal means the study participants used to cope with pain were tolerating pain, self-prayer, family help, and changing positions. This finding is consistent with findings from Chinese and Mexican population. However the use of music, guided imagery, prayer by others, and other sophisticated methods which are commonly used by USA, Hispanic and Canadian samples are not available in our sample. That fact that tolerating pain is opted for by our patients goes well with finding most agreed high with the barrier statements. A paradoxical high satisfaction despite high pain EG00229 intensity was observed in our study samples. But, the overall satisfaction of patients was lower than reported by most studies in developed and developing countries. The main reasons identified by most studies for higher rate of satisfaction despite the presence of high pain intensity are the exceptionally good caring attitude of health care professional, presence of frequent pain assessment, high rate of preoperative pain education, and presence of good communication environment. In our study, the majority of participants reported they had not received pain management education, and backing on the use of nonpharmacological methods was minimal. Similarly, the reason mentioned for dissatisfaction were overlooking of the clinician to patients�� requests. All these together indicate low level of communication to patients which might explain the relatively lower satisfaction rate. The correlates of satisfaction in our study were gender and interference of pain. Female��s higher intensity of pain and dissatisfaction were also demonstrated by studies in Western countries and eastern countries. A south African study also reported this similar scenario. The commonly proposed reason for this is that females are more socially acceptable to express pain and dissatisfaction, but it is yet to be determined as further studies are to be done in this area. Even though, expectation of pain and the perceived degree of pain relief were the most common predictors of satisfaction reported, gender and interference of pain were also reported in few Perlapine instances. Taken together, both streams of evidences well support that appropriate relief of pain with appropriate medications could bring optimal satisfaction.