Reported Pain in General


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Reliability, subjectivity, lack of common referent. Reporting of pain in vernacular English, such as the McGill Pain Questionnaire.

Note Text: 1333 Self-report, observational and communications

A theoretical framework for understanding self-report and observational measures of pain: a communications model. Abstract Self-report and observational measures of pain are examined from the perspective of a model of human communication. This model examines the experience of pain as affected by intrapersonal and cont....

Hadjistavropoulus T and Craig KD, "A theoretical framework for understanding self-report and observational measures of pain: a communications model.", Behaviour research and therapy: 2002

Note Text: 209 Misread pain

[Published checklists and scales for pain observations are often based on inaccurate pain cues.]

Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 126-7

Note Text: 118 Related to variables

The report of pain is related to numerous variables, such as cultural background, past experience, the meaning of the situation, personality variables, attention, arousal level, emotions, and reinforcement contingencies....

Turk, Dennis, and Melzack, Ronald, "Handbook of Pain Assessment", The Guildford Press, 2011, 8

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