Gracely R H
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Anesth Prog. 1990 Mar-Jun;37(2-3):88-92.
This review identifies common methods used to assess subjective reports of chronic orofacial pain in adults. Several issues in pain assessment are identified which highlight the complexity of the apparently simple task of asking subjects how much they hurt. Recent applications of psychophysical methods to chronic orofacial pain assessment are emphasized since they provide interesting new methods which can be used for analysis of pain and analgesic processes and which can improve the reliability and validity of clinical pain reports.
本综述确定了用于评估成人慢性口面部疼痛主观报告的常用方法。文中指出了疼痛评估中的几个问题，这些问题凸显了询问受试者疼痛程度这一看似简单的任务的复杂性。文中强调了心理物理学方法在慢性口面部疼痛评估中的最新应用，因为它们提供了有趣的新方法，可用于分析疼痛和镇痛过程，并且能够提高临床疼痛报告的可靠性和有效性。
