Table 6.
Ready Reckoner for the short-listed multidimensional persistent pain assessment measures
| BPI_SF* | GPQ | OccRQ | ÖMPSQ | WHYMPI | WHYMPI_S | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Validity | Face | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Content | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Construct | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Comparison | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Sensitivity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Factors | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Reliability | Inter-tester | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Intra-tester | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Test–retest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Internal | ✓ | ||||||
| Consistency | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Simple instructions, short, simply worded items | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| <20 items | ✓ | ||||||
| • Number of items | 15 | 24 | 55 | 56 | 52 | 52 | |
| Able to be scored manually | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| <15 minutes administration time | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| • Estimated average time to administer | 10 | 12 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | |
| Norms | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Cut off scores | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Specific to NZ | ✓ | ||||||
| No cost | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| No registration/limitations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total ✓ | 14 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 13 |
Abbreviations: BPI_SF, Brief Pain Inventory; GPQ, Glasgow Pain Questionnaire; OccRQ, Occupational Role Questionnaire; ÖMPSQ, Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire; WHYMPI, WHYMPI_S, West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory.