Factorial validity of the short‐form McGill pain questionnaire (SF‐MPQ)

Abstract

Although widely used, there have been few investigations of the factorial validity of the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ; Melzack, 1987). Confirmatory factor analysis was performed on item responses to the SF-MPQ obtained from 188 patients with chronic back pain. Consistent with the original structure proposed by Melzack (1987), results indicated that the SF-MPQ is best represented by a two-factor solution. However, these findings are contrary to results obtained by Burckhardt and Bjelle (1994) who, using their Swedish version of the SF-MPQ, obtained a three-factor solution. Potential explanations for the disparity between the results of the two studies are explored and recommendations for continuing clinical and research applications are offered.

Chronic pain after spinal cord injury: What characteristics make some pains more disturbing than others?

“…In addition, pains described by the words "sharp" and/or "stabbing" were more likely to be identified as MD pains. "Sharp" is generally agreed to represent sensory aspects of pain [58][59][60][61], which concurs with the higher pain intensity scores associated with the MD pains. Although MD and LD pains did not significantly differ with regard to specific body location, at-level pains were significantly more often identified as the MD pain than not (52% of MD pains vs 39% of LD pains were located at level, p = 0.034).…”

An investigation of the relationship between measures of pain intensity, pain affect, and disability, in patients with shoulder dysfunction

“…The tool has been widely used on various chronic conditions or central mediated pain conditions. 24 The SF-MPQ was designed as a measure to capture pain adjectives endorsed by patients who experienced various types of severe pains (e.g., labor, cancer, dental pain) and the affective elements that correspond to those conditions. 12 We argue that the comprehensive nature of the SF-MPQ may be less pronounced at capturing the finite elements of subacromial shoulder pain and this may be one of the reasons the outcome measure correlated with the VAS measures.…”

Effects of music therapy on pain among female breast cancer patients after radical mastectomy: results from a randomized controlled trial

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