Psychometric Properties of a Spanish Version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire in Several Spanish-Speaking Countries

Abstract

The psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire assessed in different Latin-American countries suggest that the questionnaire may be used to evaluate Spanish-speaking patients. The validity of this test should be extended with reliability studies to further establish its usefulness in the evaluation of pain.

Systematic review of cross-cultural adaptations of McGill Pain Questionnaire reveals a paucity of clinimetric testing

“…The 44 versions represent 26 different language/ cultures as there are multiple versions for the same language (4 Dutch, 4 German (being one in German-Berne [15]), 4 Norwegian, 3 Greek, 2 Brazilian-Portuguese, 2 Danish, 2 Italian, 2 Chinese, 2 Korean, 2 Turkish, 2 Japanese, and 2 Spanish versions (being one developed for Mexican-Americans [26] and another developed in Spain [14] and tested in Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, and Spain [27]). Table 3 describes the international pain questionnaires that followed the same methods undertaken by Melzack and colleagues to develop the original English language version of the MPQ [1,7], 14 classified as long form and 2 as short form.…”

Clinical Characteristics and Psychopathological Profile of Patients with Vulvodynia: An Observational and Descriptive Study

“…Pain was evaluated by means of the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), the Pain Intensity Verbal Scale (PIVS) [10] and the McGill Pain Questionnaire – Spanish Version (MPQ-SV) [11]. The VAS consisted in a 10-cm segment with the statement ‘no pain’ on the left side and ‘the worst imaginable pain’ on the right one, where patients should mark the intensity of their pain.…”

Pressure-induced referred pain is expanded by persistent soreness

“…The hypertonic saline injection given on day 1 was not expected to cause any changes in pain sensitivity on day 2 based on what has previously been reported. 17 After the saline-induced pain had subsided, the quality of pain was assessed by completion of the Danish, 7 English, 38 or Spanish 31 version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire, depending on the native language of participants. Words chosen by more than 30% of the participants were registered for later analysis as previously reported.…”