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Concurrent validity of an electronic descriptive pain scale

Department of Physical Therapy, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA; Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

David A Fishbain

School of Medicine, University of Miami, Florida, USA

Rhonda J Scudds

Department of Physical Therapy, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA; Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

The study objective was to assess the concurrent validity of the Electronic Descriptive Pain Scale (EDPS), a pain scale built into a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device. One hundred patients in an outpatient physiotherapy (PT) clinic participated (mean age 41.30 years, SD 13.95). Before and after a PT treatment, subjects rated their current pain intensity with the EDPS, a visual analogue scale, a numerical pain rating scale, and the McGill Pain Questionnaire's Present Pain Intensity. The results showed relatively high significant correlations between the EDPS and each of the other pain scales.

Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 17, No. 2, 206-208 (2003)
DOI: 10.1191/0269215503cr601oa


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