Different approximations of the McGill Pain Questionnaire in the Norwegian language: A discussion of content validity

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 772-779

  Strand, Liv Inger ^b   Ljunggren, Anne Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Content validity; McGill Pain Questionnaire; Norwegian; Pain measurement; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NORWAY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; NORWAY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0031255517     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1997.00383.x     Document Type: Article

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