WHOQOL-Pain: an assessment tool of the quality of life for people living with physical chronic pain
OBJECTIVE: Describe the WHOQOL-Pain instrument. In addition, a tool will be made available for optimization of the calculations of the scores and descriptive statistics of said instrument.METHODS: This is a theoretical review concerning the publications related to development of WHOQOL-Pain instrume...
| Principais autores: | Pedroso, Bruno, Gutierrez, Gustavo Luis, Picinin, Claudia Tania |
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| Formato: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | Português |
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Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)
2016
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http://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/4522 |
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OBJECTIVE: Describe the WHOQOL-Pain instrument. In addition, a tool will be made available for optimization of the calculations of the scores and descriptive statistics of said instrument.METHODS: This is a theoretical review concerning the publications related to development of WHOQOL-Pain instrument. To perform the calculation of scores and descriptive statistics of the instrument was built from the Microsoft Excel software a free access tool.RESULTS: The WHOQOL-Pain instrument is composed by WHOQOL-100 plus four facets related to physical chronic pain: Pain relief, Anger and frustration, Vulnerability, fear and worry, and Uncertainty. The WHOQOL-Pain consists of 16 questions, 4 questions in each facet that have scale-based responses Likert five alternative s.CONCLUSIONS: The questions pertaining to the additional module of pain and discomfort of the WHOQOL-Pain are applied in an additional set of questions at the end of the WHOQOL-100 questions. |
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