Measuring chronic rheumatic pain in Mexican Americans: Cross-cultural adaptation of the McGill Pain Questionnaire

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1389-1399

  Escalante, Agustin ^a   Lichtenstein, Michael J ^a,c   Ríos, Nancy ^b   Hazuda, Helen P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^c Geriatric Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Language; Mexican Americans; Pain; Questionnaires; Rheumatic diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEXICO; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; TEXAS; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 0030479413     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(96)00276-4     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. 1. U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1990 Census of population and housing data paper listing (CPH-L-I 33).
2. 2. Cleveland WA, Ed. Comparative national statistics. Language. In: 1993 Britannica World Data. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica; 1993, pp. 778-782.
3. 3. Day JC. Population projections of the United States by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin 1993: 2050. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports P25-1 1A. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993.
4. 4. Melzack R. The McGill pain questionnaire: Major properties and scoring methods. Pain 1975; 1: 227-299.
5. 5. Melzack R, Torgerson WS. On the language of pain. Anesthesiology 1971; 34: 50-59.
6. 6. Choiniere M, Melzack R. Acute and chronic pain in hemophilia. Pain 1987; 31: 317-331.
7. 7. Graham C, Bond SS, Gerkovich MM, et al Use of the McGill pain questionnaire in the assessment of cancer pain: Replicability and consistency. Pain 1980; 8: 377-387.
8. 8. Kiss I, Muller H, Abel M. The McGill pain questionnaire - German version. A study on cancer pain. Pain 1987; 29: 195-207.
9. 9. Radvila A, Adler RH, Galeazzi RL, Vorkauf H. The development of a German language (Berne) pain questionnaire and its application in a situation causing acute pain. Pain 1987; 28: 185-195.
10. 10. Vanderiet K, Adriansen H, Carton H, Vertommen H. The McGill pain questionnaire constructed for the Dutch language (MPQ-DV). Preliminary data concerning reliability and validity. Pain 1987; 30: 395-408.
11. 11. Stein C, Mendl G. The German counterpart of the McGill pain questionnaire. Pain 1988; 32(2): 251-255.
12. 12. Paquette C, Boureau F. Translated versus reconstructed McGill pain questionnaires: A comparative study of two French forms. Pain 1987; Supp 4: 51-62.
13. 13. Boureau F, Luu M, Doubrere JF. Comparative study of the validity of four French McGill pain questionnaire versions. Pain 1992; 50: 59-65.
14. 14. De Benedillis G, Massesi R, Nobili R, Pieri A. The Italian pain questionnaire. Pain 1988; 33: 53-62.
15. 15. Maiani G, Sanavio E. Semantics of pain in Italy: the Italian version of the McGill pain questionnaire. Pain 1985; 22: 399-405.
16. 16. Ketovuori H, Pontinen PJ. A pain vocabulary in Finnish - the Finnish pain questionnaire. Pain 1981; 11: 247-253.
17. 17. Strand LI, Wisnes AR. The development of a Norwegian pain questionnaire. Pain 1991; 46: 61-66.
18. 18. Harrison A. Arabic pain words. Pain 1988; 32(2): 239-250.
19. 19. Lahuerta J, Smith BA, Martinez-Lage JL. An adaptation of the McGill pain questionnaire to the Spanish language. Schmerz 1982; 3: 132-134.
20. 20. Flaherty JA, Gaviria FM, Pathak D, Mitchell T, Wintrob R, Richman JA, Briz S. Developing instruments for cross-cultural psychiatric research. J Nerv Ment Dis 1988; 176(5): 257-263.
21. 21. Guillemin F, Bombardier C, Beaton D. Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life measures: Literature review and proposed guidelines. J Clin Epidemiol 1993; 46: 1417-1432.
22. 22. Escalante A, Galarza-Delgado D, Beardmore TD, Baethge BA, Esquivel-Valerio J, Marines AL, Mingrone M. Cross-cultural adaptation of a brief outcome questionnaire for Spanish-speaking arthritis patients. Arthritis Rheum 1996; 39: 93-100.
23. 23. Ware JE, Jr. SF-36 Health Survey. Manual and Interpretation Guide. Boston: Nimrod Press; 1993.
24. 24. Escalante A, Lichtenstein MJ, Hazuda HP, White K, Rios N. Reliability and validity of a method for scoring the pain map of the McGill pain questionnaire for use in epidemiologic studies of the elderly. Aging Clin Exp Res 1995; 7: 358-366.
25. 25. Pincus T, Summey JA, Soraci SA, Jr, Wallston KA, Hummon NP. Assessment of patient satisfaction in activities of daily living using a modified Stanford health assessment questionnaire. Arthritis Rheum 1983; 26: 1346-1353.
26. 26. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics 1977; 33: 159-174.
27. 27. Daly LE, Bourke GJ, McGilvray J. Interpretation and Uses of Medical Statistics. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications; 1991.
28. 28. Shrout PE, Fleiss JL. Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. Psych Bull 1979; 86: 420-428.
29. 29. Fleiss JL, Cohen J. The equivalence of weighted kappa kappa and the intra-class correlation coefficient as measures of reliability. Educ Psychol Meas 1973; 33: 613-619.
30. 30. Neter J, Wasserman W, Kutner MH. Applied Linear Statistical Models. Boston: Irwin; 1990.
31. 31. Seigel DG, Podgor MJ, Remaley NA. Acceptable values of kappa for comparison of two groups. Am J Epidemiol 1992; 135: 571-578.
32. 32. Callahan LF, Pincus T. A clue from a self-report questionnaire to distinguish rheumatoid arthritis from non-inflammatory musculoskeletal pain. Arthritis Rehum 1990; 33: 1317-1322.
33. 33. Molina BZ, Molina JC, Coppo C. The Argentine pain questionnaire. Pain 1984; Supp 2: 542.
34. 34. Lara-Muñoz MCE. La amitriptilina como analgésico en pacientes con cancer. Tesis para obtener el titulo de maestria en ciencias médicas. Univenidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. 1990.