The Catalan Version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale: A Useful Instrument to Assess Catastrophic Thinking in Whiplash Patients

Journal of Pain

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 397-406

  Miró, Jordi ^a   Nieto, Rubén ^a   Huguet, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

assessment; Catalan language adaptation; Pain Catastrophizing Scale; psychometric properties; whiplash patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; RUMINATION; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 42749097906     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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