Scaling the affective domain of pain: a study of the dimensionality of verbal descriptors

Pain

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 39-49

  Morley, Stephen ^a   Pallin, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Individual difference; Multidimensional scaling; Pain effect; Pain measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0029061340     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(94)00226-5     Document Type: Article

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