Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validity of the German version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 469-478

  Meyer, Kathrin ^a   Sprott, Haiko ^a   Mannion, Anne Frances ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Catastrophizing; Chronic disease; Low back pain; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of results; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; VALIDITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PAIN; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 42949150175     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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