Why the study?
Does a self-administered cross-modal matching task provide internally consistent and temporally stable scaling of pain intensity and unpleasantness in chronic pain patients?
Population
20 chronic pain patients
Design
Other
Follow-up
2-3 weeks
Authors
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Intensity scaling shows consistency in chronic pain; leaves open unpleasantness reliability and requires larger validation trials.
Does a self-administered cross-modal matching task provide internally consistent and temporally stable scaling of pain intensity and unpleasantness in chronic pain patients?
A self-administered cross-modal matching task shows high internal consistency and temporal stability for scaling pain intensity, but not unpleasantness, in chronic pain patients.
Morley et al. (1989) studied this question.
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