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The McGill Pain Questionnaire, also known as McGill Pain Index, is a scale of rating pain developed at McGill University by Melzack and Torgerson in 1971. [1] It is a self-report questionnaire that allows individuals to give their doctor a good description of the quality and intensity of pain that they are experiencing.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps patients with pain to understand the relationship between their pain, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. A main goal in treatment is cognitive (thinking, reasoning or remembering) restructuring to encourage helpful thought patterns. [35] This will target healthy activities such as regular exercise and ...
Pain psychologists offer various mental therapies that include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), [13] acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness training, meditation, and relaxation therapies. To look at the therapies offered by a pain psychologist more in-depth here are some of the treatments associated with CBT:
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) based on this model attempts to reverse patients' symptoms by altering their interpretation of their symptoms and/or the behaviours they engage in as a result. [26] In 2016, an ARHQ addendum downgraded the evidence for CBT and stated it should not be used as a primary treatment. [28]
For example, the Depression scale has items involving physical, emotional, and cognitive content (as opposed to only questions about mood or interests). Each scale also assesses a range of severity for that scale; for example, the Suicidal Ideation scale has items that range from vague ideas about suicide to distinct plans for self-harm.
The PCS is a 13 item scale, with each item rated on a 5-point scale: 0 (Not at all) to 4 (all the time). The PCS is broken into three subscales being magnification, rumination, and helplessness. The scale was developed as a self-report measurement tool that provided a valid index of catastrophizing in clinical and non-clinical populations. [3]
An emoji representation of the Wong-Baker scale. The Wong–Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale is a pain scale that was developed by Donna Wong and Connie Baker. The scale shows a series of faces ranging from a happy face at 0, or "no hurt", to a crying face at 10, which represents "hurts like the worst pain imaginable".
Recent advances in methodologies for Internet-based research [4] include the development and evaluation of visual analogue scales for use in Internet-based questionnaires. [1] VAS is the most common pain scale for quantification of endometriosis-related pain and skin graft donor site-related pain. [5]