Verbal pain descriptors used by patients with arthritis.

Wagstaff, Sue; Smith, O. V.; Wood, Paul

doi:10.1136/ard.44.4.262

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“…It has been used in diverse clinical situations 4,5,6 and has proved reliable and effective at assessing pain. It might be objected that, in case a patient were not familiar with certain words, he or she might end up by choosing a descriptor merely for its being 'easier' or of more common usage.…”

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“…Wagstaff et al 4 , Dubuisson & Melzack 5 , and Pimenta & Teixeira 1 have all used the McGill Pain Questionnaire to evaluate pain in chronic patients, suggesting that each pathology presents unique qualities of the pain experience, and that these could be translated by groups of specific words, chosen by the patients. The present study shows this to be particularly true in the case of fibromyalgia.…”

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“…The short form of the McGill Pain Questionnaire was designed to measure three different components of painsensory, affective, and evaluative 3 . It has wide acceptance, having proved to be sensitive at evaluating pain among patients with osteoarthritis 4 , vertebral discal hernia 5 , and cancer 6 .…”

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Pain evaluation of patients with fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and low back pain

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare pain as reported by outpatients with fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and low back pain, in view of designing more adequate physical therapy treatment.Patients and Methods: A Portuguese version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire -where subjects are asked to choose, from lists of pre-categorized words, one or none that best describes what they feel -was used to assess pain intensity and quality of 64 patients, of which 24 had fibromyalgia, 22 had osteoarthritis, and 18 had low back pain. The pre-categorized words were organized into 4 major classes -sensory, affective, evaluative, and miscellaneous.Results: Patients with fibromyalgia reported, comparatively, more intense pain through their choice of pain descriptors, both sensory and affective; they also chose a higher number of words from these classes than patients in the other groups and were the only ones to choose specific affective descriptors such as "vicious", "wretched", "exhausting", "blinding".Conclusion: Assuming that each disease presents unique qualities of pain experience, and that these can be pointed out by means of this questionnaire by patients' choice of specific groups of words, the findings suggest that fibromyalgia include not only a physical component, but also a psycho-emotional component, indicating that they require both emotional/affective and physical care. DESCRIPTORS: Pain. Chronic pain assessment. Fibromyalgia. McGill Pain Questionnaire. Physical Therapy.

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“…In addition, subscales for affective, evaluative, and sensory aspects of pain provide data on various qualities of the pain experience. The MPQ has excellent reliability and validity (23,24) and has been widely used with rheumatology patients (8,25,26).…”

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Radiographic assessment and psychologic variables as predictors of pain and functional impairment in osteoarthritis of the knee or hip

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Haley

Reveille

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Arthritis & Rheumatism

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Sixty‐five outpatients with osteoarthritis of the knee and/or hip were assessed using radiographic ratings of disease severity, measures of psychologic coping, and multidimensional clinical outcomes of degree of pain and functional impairment. Disease severity accounted for little of the individual variability in clinical outcomes. Even after controlling for disease severity, psychologic variables remained strong predictors of individual differences in functional impairment and pain. Psychologic processes deserve greater clinical and research attention as potential mediators between disease severity and clinical outcome.

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“…First, there is no generally established vocabulary for describing non-extrinsic phenomena or sensations such as pain [34,35] and patients frequently report difficulties in finding the words to adequately convey their experience to others [36][37][38]; "what pain achieves it achieves in part through its unsharability…its resistance to language" [39, p.4]. Further, the language evoked to describe pain, particularly its sensory or qualitative dimension, is primarily based on analogies relating to external actions or stimuli, e.g.…”

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Handling pain: The semantic interplay of speech and co-speech hand gestures in the description of pain sensations

Rowbotham

Holler

Lloyd

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Pain is a private and subjective experience about which effective communication is vital, particularly in medical settings. Speakers often represent information about pain sensation in both speech and co-speech hand gestures simultaneously, but it is not known whether gestures merely replicate spoken information or complement it in some way. We examined the representational contribution of gestures in a range of consecutive analyses. Firstly, we found that 78% of speech units containing pain sensation were accompanied by gestures, with 53% of these gestures representing pain sensation. Secondly, in 43% of these instances, gestures represented pain sensation information that was not contained in speech, contributing additional, complementary information to the pain sensation message. Finally, when applying a specificity analysis, we found that in contrast with research in different domains of talk, gestures did not make the pain sensation information in speech more

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Verbal pain descriptors used by patients with arthritis.

Cited by 60 publications

References 5 publications

Pain evaluation of patients with fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and low back pain

Pain evaluation of patients with fibromyalgia, osteoarthritis, and low back pain

Radiographic assessment and psychologic variables as predictors of pain and functional impairment in osteoarthritis of the knee or hip

Handling pain: The semantic interplay of speech and co-speech hand gestures in the description of pain sensations

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