Reference Identification

The short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire.

Pain , Melzack R. dis 1987; 30:191-7
Country: Canada
Language: English

Other references of interest

Melzack R. The McGill Pain Questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods. Pain 1975;1:277–99.

Description and validation of the original MPQ



Burckhardt CS. The use of the McGill Pain Questionnaire in assessing arthritis pain. Pain 1984;19:305–14

A study with the objective to assess arthritis pain, reported good reproducibility and sensitivity to change for the MPQ score.



Kachooei AR, Ebrahimzadeh MH, Erfani-Sayyar R, Salehi M, Salimi E, Razi S. Short Form-McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF-MPQ-2): A Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation Study of the Persian Version in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis. Arch Bone Jt Surg. 2015;3(1):45‐50.

A validation of the questionnaire in patients with osteoarthritis


Instrument/Tool Translations References

Reproducibility: reliability and agreement parameters of the Revised Short McGill Pain Questionnaire Version-2 for use in patients with musculoskeletal shoulder pain. 

https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC7661222