Kremer Edwin, Atkinson Hampton J
University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, Calif. 92093 U.S.A.
Pain. 1981 Aug;11(1):93-100. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(81)90142-1.
The research reported here used a population of chronic benign pain patients and examined the relationship between scores in the affective dimension of the McGill Pain Questionnaire and independent measures of affect and infirmity The data indicated that patients who reported high affective dimensional scores were significantly more depressed and anxious and somatized more than patients who reported low effective scores. Similarly, these high affective patients reported significantly greater perceived infirmity secondary to their pain. These results suggest that the affective dimension score of the McGill Pain Questionnaire can serve as a useful index of the overall affective status of pain patients and given this interpretation the dimension has good construct validity.
本文所报道的研究以慢性良性疼痛患者群体为对象，考察了麦吉尔疼痛问卷情感维度得分与情感及身体不适独立测量指标之间的关系。数据表明，情感维度得分高的患者比得分低的患者明显更抑郁、焦虑，且躯体化症状更严重。同样，这些情感维度得分高的患者报告称，因其疼痛导致的身体不适感受明显更强。这些结果表明，麦吉尔疼痛问卷的情感维度得分可作为疼痛患者整体情感状态的有用指标，基于这一解释，该维度具有良好的结构效度。
