scholarly journals A Short Version of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS-20): Preliminary Development and Validity

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance M McCracken ◽  
Lara Dhingra
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Short Version ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Pain Anxiety ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale ◽  
Development And Validation

BACKGROUND:Research has shown significant relations between fear and avoidance of pain and the suffering and disability of chronic pain. Effective measurement tools have formed the foundation for studying these relations.METHODS:The present article describes the initial development and validation of the PASS-20, a short form version of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS). Like the original inventory, the PASS-20 measures fear and anxiety responses specific to pain. Items were selected for the short version based on item variance, item intercorrelation and reliability analyses.RESULTS:The PASS-20 shows strong internal consistency, reliability, and good predictive and construct validity. Item reduction appears to result in minimal shrinkage of validity correlations.CONCLUSIONS:Overall, the results suggest that the short form retains adequate psychometric properties. Possible research and clinical implications for the PASS-20 include more efficient screening during evaluations of patients with chronic pain, and use when the time or effort needed for the full version is prohibitive.

Chronic pain management a fundamental human right: adaptation and examination of psychometric properties of pain anxiety symptoms scale among osteoporosis sample from Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanwar Hamza Shuja ◽  
Muhammad Aqeel ◽  
Rimsha Sarfaraz
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pain Anxiety ◽  
Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale ◽  
Three Factor

Purpose Chronic pain is a global community health and human rights issue. Proper health care is an important necessity for every human being and access for treatment is every human’s right. Likewise, it is significant that proper instruments should be administered to assess these clinical issues. It is equally necessary to reassess these tools accordingly to diverse cultures, especially subjective tools to check their validity and cultural specification. The purpose of this study is to adapt and examine the factorial structure of 20 items and three-factor structure, pain anxiety symptoms scale (McCracken and Dhingra, 2002). As literature evidence suggested of a three-factor structure (Cho, 2010). Design/methodology/approach Primarily, the scale was translated into Urdu language using the forward-backward method. Afterward, a reliability assessment and a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for construct validity, on an osteoporosis patients’ sample (N = 250) was performed. Subsequently, an Obliman method exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on an osteoporosis sample (N = 500) for factor structuring followed by validity and reliability analysis. Findings The initial findings demonstrated a high internal consistency of the translated version of the scale (α = 0.85) and an acceptable test-retest reliability (r = 0.69). CFA displayed a high inter-correlation between scale and its subscales. However, CFA suggested a three-factor model. Consequently, EFA proposed a three-factor, 19 item scale, namely, behavioral; cognitive; and physical subscale, which demonstrated high alpha reliability (α.= 0.86). Other results indicated the scale to have a significant predictive and convergent validity for depression and positive and negative affect. Originality/value The present study is novel in its approach as the present study not only tried to adapt the original Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale to Pakistani culture but has also checked the factorial structure of the original scale. The results achieved in the process suggested a three-factor structure scale with 19 items in opposition to the original four structured, 20 items scale.

Psychometric Evaluation of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS) in Chronic Pain Patients

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Roelofs ◽  
Lance McCracken ◽  
Madelon L. Peters ◽  
Geert Crombez ◽  
Gerard van Breukelen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Pain Anxiety ◽  
Chronic Pain Patients ◽  
Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale ◽  
Pain Patients

scholarly journals Reliability and validity of the Child Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (CPASS) in a clinical sample of children and adolescents with acute postsurgical pain

Pain ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (9) ◽  
pp. 1958-1965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle M. Pagé ◽  
Fiona Campbell ◽  
Lisa Isaac ◽  
Jennifer Stinson ◽  
Andrea L. Martin-Pichora ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Pain Anxiety ◽  
Postsurgical Pain ◽  
Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale
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