The McGill pain questionnaire: from description to measurement.
@article{Melzack2005TheMP, title={The McGill pain questionnaire: from description to measurement.}, author={Ronald Melzack}, journal={Anesthesiology}, year={2005}, volume={103 1}, pages={ 199-202 } }
On the language of pain. [] Key Method Words used to describe pain were brought together and categorized, and an attempt was made to scale them on a common intensity dimension. The data show that: 1) there are many words in the English language to describe the varieties of pain experience; 2) there is a high level of agreement that the words fall into classes and subclasses that represent particular dimensions or properties of pain experience; 3) substantial portions of the words have approximately the sameā¦
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