Sections:
(1) What Does Your Pain Feel Like? 20 questions for the pain score (see below)
(2) How Does Your Pain Change with Time? 1 question scored from 1 to 3
(3) How Strong is Your Pain? 6 questions scored from 1 (mild) to 5 (worst imaginable)
Current pain feels like:
(1) temporal features
(2) spatial features
(3) punctate pressure
(4) incisive pressure
(5) constrictive pressure
(6) traction pressure
(7) thermal pressure
(8) brightness
(9) dullness
(10) sensory miscellaneous
(11) tension
(12) autonomic
(13) fear
(14) punishment
(15) affective-evaluative-sensory miscellaneous
(16) evaluative
(17) sensory miscellaneous
(18) sensory miscellaneous
(19) sensory
(20) affective-evaluative miscellaneous
Items are scored from 1 to either 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6
pain score =
= SUM(points for applicable descriptors)
The patient is also asked about the impact of 22 actions/activities on the pain.
Interpretation:
• minimum pain score: 0 (would not be seen in a person with true pain)
• maximum pain score: 78
• The higher the pain score, the greater the pain.
