Melzack Ronald
Department of Psychology, and Pain Rehabilitation Research Unit of the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal Canada.
Pain. 1975 Sep;1(3):277-299. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(75)90044-5.
The McGill Pain Questionnaire consists primarily of 3 major classes of word descriptors--sensory, affective and evaluative--that are used by patients to specify subjective pain experience. It also contains an intensity scale and other items to determine the properties of pain experience. The questionnaire was designed to provide quantitative measures of clinical pain that can be treated statistically. This paper describes the procedures for administration of the questionnaire and the various measures that can be derived from it. The 3 major measures are: (1) the pain rating index, based on two types of numerical values that can be assigned to each word descriptor, (2) the number of words chosen; and (3) the present pain intensity based on a 1-5 intensity scale. Correlation coefficients among these measures, based on data obtained with 297 patients suffering several kinds of pain, are presented. In addition, an experimental study which utilized the questionnaire is analyzed in order to describe the nature of the information that is obtained. The data, taken together, indicate that the McGill Pain Questionnaire provides quantitative information that can be treated statistically, and is sufficiently sensitive to detect differences among different methods to relieve pain.
麦吉尔疼痛问卷主要由三大类词汇描述符组成——感觉类、情感类和评价类——患者用这些来具体描述主观疼痛体验。它还包含一个强度量表和其他项目，以确定疼痛体验的性质。该问卷旨在提供可进行统计学处理的临床疼痛定量测量方法。本文描述了问卷的施测程序以及可从中得出的各种测量方法。三大主要测量方法为：（1）疼痛评级指数，基于可赋予每个词汇描述符的两种数值类型；（2）所选词汇的数量；（3）基于1至5强度量表的当前疼痛强度。文中给出了基于297名患有多种疼痛的患者所获数据得出的这些测量方法之间的相关系数。此外，还分析了一项使用该问卷的实验研究，以描述所获信息的性质。综合这些数据表明，麦吉尔疼痛问卷提供了可进行统计学处理的定量信息，并且足够灵敏，能够检测出不同止痛方法之间的差异。
