Test-retest reliability of the pain drawing instrument
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 33 (1) , 49-51
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(88)90202-3
Abstract
Test-retest reliability of a pain drawing instrument was investigated. Pain drawings of chronic pain patients (n = 51) were scored for percentage of total body surface in pain and location of pain. A test-retest reliability coefficient of r = 0.85 was calculated for a time interval that averaged 71 days. In addition, a percentage of agreement based on distribution of pain over time was calculated at 88.2%. The effect on reliability of age, gender and time-interval differences was investigated. The utility of the pain drawing instrument as a measure of extent of pain and location of pain over time is discussed.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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