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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 6.

Internal Consistency of the CPMQ

Scalesa Number of Itemsb Mean (SD)c Cronbach’s Alpha
Total 16 60.84 (9.66) 0.80
Concern about reporting pain 4 17.05 (2.32) 0.65
  Fatalism 2 8.23 (1.38) 0.59
  Stoicism 2 8.82 (1.33) 0.57
Concern about administering analgesics 12 43.73 (7.93) 0.78
  Concern about addiction 3 11.55 (2.69) 0.78
  Concern about side effects 7 24.46 (4.49) 0.75
  Concern about tolerance 2 7.71 (1.72) 0.56

CPMQ = Caregiver Pain Medicine Questionnaire; SD = standard deviation.

a

Each measures the average response to the items.

b

Each item is scored from one (strongly agree) to five “strongly disagree.”

c

Means and SDs of raw scores.