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McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ)

[ McGill Pain Questionnaire Standard and Short-Form ]

	Author(s)
Melzack R

Purpose

Pathology:

Signs and symptoms

Disease:

Pain

Objective:

To provide quantitative measures of clinical pain that would capture its sensory, affective and other qualitative components, and allow statistical analysis of data collected during clinical research and practice

Population:

Adolescent
Adult
Caregivers
Geriatrics
Terminal patients

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Symptom/functioning

Mode of administration:

Caregiver-administered
Interviewer-administered
Proxy-administered
Self-administered
Telephone-administered

[ All modes are valid, but it is necessary to maintain consistency of the procedure ]

Number of items:

MPQ:20; MPQ Short Form:15

Existence of database:

Time recall:

Currently, presently

Language(s)

Original language:

English for Canada

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

MPQ:

Arabic	French for Canada	Japanese	Spanish for Columbia
Czech	German	Norwegian	Spanish for Mexico
Danish	German for Switzerland	Polish	Swedish
Dutch for Belgium	Greek	Portuguese
Finnish	Hungarian	Slovak
French	Italian	Spanish

MPQ-SF:

Croatian	Hebrew	Portuguese for Brazil	Spanish for Colombia
Czech	Hungarian	Russian	Spanish for Mexico
Dutch	Italian	Slovak	Spanish for the USA
Dutch for Belgium	Mandarin for China	Spanish
French	Polish	Spanish for Argentina
German	Portuguese	Spanish for Brazil

Last update: October 2006
Last update in collaboration with the author: May 2004

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