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McGill Pain Questionnaire

McGill Pain Questionnaire

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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. The users are presented with a list of 78 words in 20 sections that are related to pain.[2] The users mark the words that best describe their pain (multiple markings are allowed). Among the words, sections of these words signify different components of pain, namely, Sensory (sections 1-10), Affective (sections 11-15), Evaluative (section 16), and Miscellaneous (sections 17-20).[1]

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According to the European Medicines Agency it is the most frequently used measurement tool for multidimensional pain assessment in chronic pain.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Melzack, Ronald; Raja, Srinivasa N. (1 July 2005). "The McGill Pain Questionnaire". Anesthesiology. 103 (1): 199–202. doi:10.1097/00000542-200507000-00028. PMID 15983473. S2CID 19014238.
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    Melzack, Ronald; Katz, Joel (2007). "McGill Pain Questionnaire". Encyclopedia of Pain. pp. 1102–1104. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29805-2_2298. ISBN 978-3-540-43957-8.
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    European Medicines Agency: Guideline on the clinical development of medicinal products intended for the treatment of pain (2016). P. 8.
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