Guidelines·Consensus·Interpretation
Expert consensus on the application of pain evaluation questionnaires in China(2020)
Wan Li, Zhao Qing, Chen Jun, Fan Bifa, Gao Chongrong, Hu Li, Jin Yi, Liu Rongguo, Lu Guijun, Song Tao, Tao Wei, Wang Jianglin, Wang Lin, Wei Jun, Wu Dasheng, Yang Xiaoqiu
Published 2020-06-25
Cite as Chin J Painol, 2020, 16(3): 177-187. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn101379-20190915-00075
Abstract
With the aging problem becoming increasingly serious, the number of patients with pain has skyrocketed in China. Pain-related issues, including pain prevention, pain treatment, and pain management, have become a serious challenge for Chinese clinical physicians and researchers. Increasing the accuracy in pain diagnosis, evaluation and the influence on patients' well-being is the key to solve the issue raised by pain. However, up to this day, lacking indigenous questionnaires of pain, Chinese clinical physicians and researchers have to rely on foreign pain questionnaires for their uses in China. The current expert consensus presents a review of 14 pain questionnaires, which are frequently used in China and internationally recognized. A team of 16 mainland Chinese experts of pain medicine discussed the validity of using these questionnaires in the Chinese context, and most of these Chinese experts agreed that the above questionnaires could be temporarily used for the diagnosis and evaluation of pain in China. However, accurate evaluation of pain and its influence in Chinese population require clinical physicians and researchers to work together for developing the first set of indigenous Chinese pain questionnaires. The establishment of the indigenous questionnaires will be a milestone in Chinese history of the pain society.
Key words:
Pain; Self-report questionnaires; Reliability and validity; Chinese translated versions; Expert consensus
Contributor Information
Wan Li
Department of Pain Management, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510260, China
Zhao Qing
Department of Pain Management, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510260, China
Chen Jun
Institute for Biomedical Sciences of Pain, Tangdu Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province 710038, China
Fan Bifa
Department of Pain Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China
Gao Chongrong
Department of Pain Management, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510260, China
Hu Li
CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Jin Yi
Department of Pain Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Theater Command, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province 210002, China
Liu Rongguo
Department of Pain Medicine, Fujian Province Hospital, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province 350001, China
Lu Guijun
Department of Pain Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital, Beijing 102218, China
Song Tao
Department of Pain Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province 110001, China
Tao Wei
Department of Neurosurgery, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Shenzhen 518000, China
Wang Jianglin
Department of Pain Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province 646000, China
Wang Lin
Department of Pain Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province 550004, China
Wei Jun
Department of Pain Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province 341099, China
Wu Dasheng
Department of Pain Management, Jilin Province People's Hospital, Changchun City, Jilin Province 130021, China
Yang Xiaoqiu
Department of Pain Management, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 630014, China
