Assessment of pain and its consequenses
Research project
Contact person: Ann L. Persson
Pain scales are tools to diagnose or measure the patients' pain
intensity. The most commonly used scales are visual, verbal,
numerical or a combination of all three.
Pain drawing is often used to diagnose chronic pain. They vary in
design, but are all based on the same principal: a line drawing of
a human body seen from the face, the back and the side with the
pain area marked. Manual methods are used for analyzes but there
are now also computer software programs for analyzing
results.
The consequences of pain can also be assessed with the
Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) a self-reporting instrument
for chronic pain and the consequences of pain from different
perspectives.
- Persson AL, Garametsos S, Pedersen J. Computer aided surface
estimation of pain drawings - intra and inter-reliability. 16 th
European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2008,
Bruge.