Journal
PAIN
Volume 113, Issue 1-2, Pages 82-90Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2004.09.037
Keywords
chronic pain; brief screening; pain severity; pain interference; emotional burden
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R43NS038772, R44NS038772] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NINDS NIH HHS [R44 NS038772-03, R44 NS038772-02, NS 38772, R44 NS038772-03S1] Funding Source: Medline
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From a biopsychosocial perspective, assessing chronic pain's psychological impact should involve at minimum the measurement of pain severity, functional interference, and pain-related emotional burden. This article details the development of a brief instrument, the 15-item Profile of Chronic Pain: Screen (PCP:S), designed to address these three key elements in a national (US) sample of over 2400 individuals recruited via random digit dialing. Retest reliability, internal consistency, and preliminary validity were excellent. The scales also demonstrated minimal social desirability response bias. A series of confirmatory factor analyses on several distinct samples revealed a stable, 3-factor solution reflecting pain severity, interference, and emotional burden. Finally, national norms were developed by gender and three age groups. In view of its strong psychometric properties, the PCP:S has the potential to serve as a brief, cost-effective assessment too for identifying individuals whose chronic pain merits more detailed psychosocial evaluation. (C) 2004 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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