Use of the Greek McGill Pain Questionnaire in cancer patients

Autor:	Lambros Vlahos, Efi Parpa, Emmanuela Katsouda, Eleni Tsilika, Kyriaki Mystakidou
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Pain experience Future studies Palliative care business.industry Health Policy Alternative medicine Validity Cancer General Medicine medicine.disease McGill Pain Questionnaire Physical therapy medicine Pharmacology (medical) business Pain.status
Zdroj:	Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. 4:227-233
ISSN:	1744-8379 1473-7167
DOI:	10.1586/14737167.4.2.227
Popis:	Cancer directly causes pain and raises a significant clinical problem. Pain is the most dominant cause of suffering in cancer patients. The accurate assessment of pain is a prerequisite for its effective relief, and therefore, a universal methodology for the assessment of the pain status of a patient is required. There are many different methods and various instruments for the measurement of pain. The McGill Pain Questionnaire is a multidimensional instrument for the assessment of pain intensity and the multiple dimensions of the pain experience. Several translations and version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire exist. The Greek version was developed in Athens and has been tested for its use in cancer patients receiving palliative care. The Greek McGill Pain Questionnaire validation study provided preliminary evidence of the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. Future studies are needed to confirm the validity of the instrument in order to render it fully utilizable for the assessment of pain caused by the diverse conditions experienced by Greek patients.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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