Choi Kyomin, Kwon Ohyun, Suh Bum Chun, Oh Jeeyoung, Cho Sungkun, Sohn Eunhee, Joo In Soo
Department of Neurology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Department of Neurology, Uijeongbu Eulji Medical Center, Eulji University School of Medicine, Uijeongbu, Korea.
J Clin Neurol. 2023 May;19(3):296-303. doi: 10.3988/jcn.2022.0105. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
The description of pain is the most-important indicator leading to the adequate treatment of patients with neuropathic pain (NeP). The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize the unique features of Korean verbal descriptions in patients with peripheral NeP.
This study included 400 patients (167 males and 233 females) and their 1,387 pain-description responses. Patients with peripheral NeP freely described their symptoms in Korean. Collected verbal descriptions were grouped according to terminologies with similar meanings. Participants completed validated patient-reported outcome scales including the neuropathic pain symptom inventory (NPSI) and painDETECT questionnaire (PD-Q). The frequencies of each verbal pain descriptor were compared between the NPSI and PD-Q scores.
'' (tingling) was the most common among 17 types of organized verbal pain descriptors, and the '' (cold) symptom had a significantly higher rate of use in the 2 high-severity groups when participants were classified by their total scores on the NPSI and PD-Q.
Korean verbal NeP descriptors were significantly diverse. The (tingling) and (cold) descriptors can be utilized in evaluations of Korean patients with NeP.
疼痛描述是指导对神经性疼痛（NeP）患者进行充分治疗的最重要指标。本研究旨在识别并描述韩国外周性NeP患者语言描述的独特特征。
本研究纳入400例患者（男性167例，女性233例）及其1387份疼痛描述回复。外周性NeP患者用韩语自由描述其症状。收集到的语言描述根据含义相似的术语进行分组。参与者完成了经过验证的患者报告结局量表，包括神经性疼痛症状量表（NPSI）和疼痛DETECT问卷（PD-Q）。比较了每个语言性疼痛描述符在NPSI和PD-Q评分之间的出现频率。
在17种有组织的语言性疼痛描述符中，“（刺痛）”最为常见，当根据参与者在NPSI和PD-Q上的总分进行分类时，“（冷）”症状在两个高严重程度组中的使用率显著更高。
韩国语中NeP的描述符差异显著。“（刺痛）”和“（冷）”描述符可用于评估韩国NeP患者。
