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The internal structure of the McGill pain questionnaire in dysmenorrhoea patients

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  • 1WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Research in Human Reproduction, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King's College Hospital Medical School, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8RX Great Britain.

Pain
|December 1, 1979
PubMed

The McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ) was administered to 166 women attending Gynaecology Clinics complaining of dysmenorrhoea. Responses were subjected to factor analysis with 4 dimensions emerging. These reflected sensory qualities of the pain experience and factors related to the reaction component of the pain. These results are considered in relation to factorial analysis of the MPQ among back patients and in terms of treatment implications.

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