The psychometric properties of Chinese pain intensity verbal rating scale

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1013-1019

  Liu, Justina Y W ^a   Chung, J W Y ^a   Wong, T K S ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; Pain assessment; Pain intensity; Psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHINESE PAIN INTENSITY VERBAL RATING SCALE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 0041430639     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2003.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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