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Psychometric Evaluation of the Revised Iowa Pain Thermometer-Czech for Patients with Stroke
1University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic petra.mandysova@upce.cz.
Background And Purpose:
Pain is a frequent yet underdiagnosed problem in patients with stroke due to stroke-related cognitive limitations that may hamper effective usage of pain tools. The Revised Iowa Pain Thermometer-Czech (IPT-R-CZ) is a linguistically validated translation of an English-language self-report pain instrument; however, the psychometric properties of the Czech version are unknown. This study aimed to psychometrically evaluate the IPT-R-CZ in cognitively intact and impaired Czech-speaking patients with stroke.
Methods:
Fifty-four patients rated their pain intensity using the IPT-R-CZ, the Faces Pain Scale-Revised, and the Numerical Rating Scale, ranking them in terms of usability.
Results:
Correlations among pain scores across the tools were very strong. The IPTR-CZ ranked first in terms of usability.
Conclusion:
Convergent validity, test-retest reliability, and usability of the IPT-R-CZ in Czech-speaking cooperative patients with stroke were acceptable.
