Arabic pain words

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Hese represent acceptable pain descriptions in Arabic. From these sources, a list of Arabic pain adjectives was compiled. 67 university undergraduates classified each word as sensory, evaluative or affective, and rated the pain intensity connoted. Over 100 Arabic pain words were identified. Ratings revealed that, just as in English, pain is a multidimensional concept. The pain intensity rank ordering of many groupings in the MPQ was preserved when the Arabic translations were rated, even though the Arabic adjectives were not presented in the format of the MPQ. Theoretical and practical problems encountered in producing a fully equivalent pain inventory in another language are discussed. ∗Correspondence to: Dr. Ann Harrison, Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923 (Safat), 13110 Safat, Kuwait. (Received 15 June 1987; accepted 15 September 1987.) © Lippincott-Raven Publishers....