Diagnosis of Organic and Functional Pain Patients with the MMPI
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 52 (2) , 539-548
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.52.2.539
Abstract
There are contradictory findings regarding the use of the MMPI to discriminate between patients with organic and functional pain. The MMPI was administered to patients, 43 with organic and 39 with functional pain, at a university hospital pain clinic. Multivariate analyses were nonsignificant, strongly suggesting that the clinical usefulness of this scale to differentiate between patients with organic and functional pain is highly questionable.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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