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Adaptation of the Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale: A Cross-Cultural Study
Talita de Cassia Raminelli da Silva1,2, Simone Saltareli3, Rodrigo Ramon Falconi Gomez2
1Unieuro-Centro Universitário-Grupo Educacional Ceuma, Brasília, Brazil.
Background And Purpose:
Instruments to measure pain must be cross-culturally adapted through rigorous processes, so they can provide equivalence of measure regardless of the context in which they are applied. The study aim was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of Multidimensional Pain Evaluation Scale (MPES) for use in the United States.
Methods:
Cross-cultural adaptation study entailed translation, back translation, and review by a committee, face and content validity and pilot testing with 90 participants with acute or chronic pain from United States. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated.
Results:
Some items of MPES was changed to maintain the highest level of similarity between the original scales in Portuguese and adapted to English.
Conclusion:
The Cronbach's alpha was high showed this scale has internal consistency and reliability.
