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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2013 Nov 15;48(1):99–109. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.08.014

Table 1.

Items in the Caregiver Pain Medicine Questionnaire

Proportion of Responses
Second-Order Factor, First-Order Factor, Item 1 2 3 4 5
Concern about reporting pain
  Fatalism
    3 Pain medicine cannot really control pain. 0.009 0.049 0.103 0.517 0.322
    9 It is not realistic to expect that pain can be relieved. 0.003 0.060 0.078 0.534 0.325
  Stoicism
    5 People in pain should not complain about their pain. 0.014 0.026 0.009 0.322 0.629
    11 People in pain should be strong; they should take the medicine only when the pain is extreme. 0.003 0.075 0.020 0.460 0.443
Concern about administering analgesics
  Concern about addiction
    6 It is dangerous if hospice patients become addicted to pain medicine. 0.026 0.109 0.089 0.402 0.374
    12 It is not a good idea for people to take pain medicine regularly because they can get addicted to it. 0.009 0.147 0.092 0.437 0.316
    15 It a hospice patient becomes addicted to pain medicine, it is one more problem to have to deal with. 0.020 0.218 0.118 0.385 0.259
  Concern about side effects
    1 People should take less than the prescribed dose of pain medication to avoid side effects. 0.023 0.103 0.124 0.460 0.290
    4 It is easier to put up with pain than with the side effects that come from pain medicine. 0.006 0.043 0.144 0.483 0.325
    7 Taking pain medication can cause a person to lose control. 0.017 0.204 0.279 0.353 0.147
    10 Taking too much pain medicine can hasten a person’s death. 0.023 0.201 0.250 0.330 0.195
    13 It is better to have a good bowel movement than to get constipated with the pain medicine. 0.086 0.310 0.224 0.256 0.124
    14 It is better to be alert and have pain than to be drowsy with the pain medicine. 0.011 0.075 0.141 0.506 0.267
    16 When people who take pain medicine have nausea, it is really distressing. 0.055 0.529 0.184 0.167 0.066
  Concern about tolerance
    2 It is not good when people need to take more of the pain medication as time goes on. 0.017 0.144 0.103 0.457 0.279
    8 It is better to wait to take pain medication until it is really needed or else it will not work later. 0.009 0.141 0.118 0.437 0.296

1 = strongly agree; 2 = agree; 3 = undecided; 4 = disagree; 5 = strongly disagree.