Cross-cultural adaptation of the Pain Medication Questionnaire for use in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The Pain Medication Questionnaire (PMQ) assesses the risk of opioid abuse in people with non-oncological chronic pain. METHODS:This is a methodological study conducted at a hemotherapy centre in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. A Cross-cultural adaptation was carried out by a committee of nine specialists, and we applied the PMQ to a pre-final sample of 40 individuals with sickle cell anemia, in addition to a sociodemographic and clinical questionnaire. RESULTS:The mean agreement indexes for PMQ equivalences were the following: semantic (0.996), idiomatic (0.970), experiential (0.991), conceptual (0.953), language clarity (0.991), practical relevance (0.906), and theoretical relevance (0.945). Assessment of the PMQ showed that 50% of participants obtained a score equivalent to

SUBMITTER: Galindo SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6757373 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature