| Name of the Instrument/Tool | The Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) |
| First Description |
Melzack R. The short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire. Pain 1987;30:191–7 |
| Year | 1987 |
| Domains | |
| Concept of constructs | Pain, Pain |
| Population/Disease | Generic |
| Originally developed for | --- |
| Other rheumatic diseases where can be applied (only if validated) |
--- |
| Additional population with no rheumatic diseases |
No |
| Language: Originally published in | English |
| Available in Language | Greek, English, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Norwegian, Japanese, Turkish, Norwegian, Japanese, Czech, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Dutch, French, Spanish, Spanish, French, Czech, English, Portuguese |
| REFERENCE IDENTIFICATION | |
| Author/s | Melzack R. |
| Title | The short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire. |
| Journal | Pain |
| Year | 1987 |
| Vol | 30 |
| Num | --- |
| Pages | 191-7 |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Other references of interest | |
| Link | Melzack R. The McGill Pain Questionnaire: major properties a … |
| Brief Description |
Description and validation of the original MPQ |
| Link | Burckhardt CS. The use of the McGill Pain Questionnaire in a … |
| Brief Description |
A study with the objective to assess arthritis pain, reported good reproducibility and sensitivity to change for the MPQ score. |
| Link | Kachooei AR, Ebrahimzadeh MH, Erfani-Sayyar R, Salehi M, Sal … |
| Brief Description |
A validation of the questionnaire in patients with osteoarthritis |
| Instrument/Tool Translations References | |
| Link | https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC7661222 |
| Brief Description |
Reproducibility: reliability and agreement parameters of the Revised Short McGill Pain Questionnaire Version-2 for use in patients with musculoskeletal shoulder pain. |
| DEVELOPER CONTACT INFORMATION | |
| Correspondence to | Ronald Melzack |
| ronald.melzack@mcgill.ca | |
| Address | Department of Psychology, and Pain Rehabilitation Research Unit of the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal Canada |
| Website | --- |
| Available | --- |
| Links | --- |
| DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENT | |
| Type Of Measure | Questionnaire, Questionnaire |
| Brief Description |
The Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ) uses only 15 descriptors from the full-length version (11 in the sensory class and 4 in the affective class), one item on pain intensity, and a VAS for pain |
| Number of Items | 15 |
| Range | --- |
| Responses options/scale |
Yes 4 |
| Developed for | Both, Both |
| PRACTICAL APPLICATION | |
| Method of administration | Self-administered, Self-administered |
| Recommendations to score |
Each descriptor is rated on a 4-point intensity scale (0, absent; 1, mild; 2, moderate; and 3, severe). |
| Score Interpretation | The maximum score is 60 points |
| Cut-off points | No cutoff has been determined to assist in interpreting the results |
| Cut-off points applied to | Not specified, Not specified |
| Smallest detectable change if described | Clinically important change (CIC): mean improvement in total scores >5 on the 0–45 Norwegian SF-MPQ scale |
| Smallest detectable change applied to | --- |
| Completion time by the patient | 2-5 minutes |
| Scoring time by the assessor | 0 minutes |
| Training to score | Not necessary |
| Strengths | Widely used, Useful in clinical practice & research, Widely used |
| Limitations | Complex scoring |
| OTHER COMMENTS | |
| Other Comments | --- |