Multidimensional pain evaluation scale

Authors

  • Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros Sousa University of São Paulo; Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing
  • Lilian Varanda Pereira Universidade Federal de Goiás; Faculdade de Enfermagem
  • Roberta Cardoso Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  • Priscilla Hortense University of Toronto; Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692010000100002

Keywords:

Subject Headings, Pain, Pain Measurement

Abstract

This study developed a pain evaluation scale and validated it for the Portuguese language. Development of the inventory - 308 readily available pain descriptors - were searched in international literature and validated by six judges. One hundred descriptors of acute pain and 100 descriptors of chronic pain were found, which were used in the next stage. Statistical validation - 493 health professionals and 146 patients experiencing acute and chronic pain participated in the study. Instructions, pain descriptors and respective definitions, pen and measuring tape were provided to participants. Psychophysical methods were used to establish categories, magnitude and cross-modality matching using line-length. Results revealed the ranking of the most frequently used descriptors of acute and chronic pain, with power equal to 0.99, close to the predicted (one), using line-length estimations. The Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale is thus validated for the Portuguese language.

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Published

2010-02-01

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2010)

Section

Original Articles

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How to Cite

Multidimensional pain evaluation scale . (2010). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 18(1), 03-10. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692010000100002