A partial extraction of the PD-Q (Chinese version)
| Examples from PD-Q |
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| There are 3 questions from which the patient may elect to give a score on a NRS from 0 (none) to 10 (max.), e.g. how would you assess your pain now at this moment, your strongest pain and your pain on average during the past 4 weeks? |
| The questionnaire is accompanied by four pictorial representations of aspects of pain and the patient should mark the picture that best describes the course of pain, e.g. persistent pain with slight fluctuations, persistent pain with pain attacks, pain attacks without pain between them, pain attacks with pain between them. |
| The questionnaire offers a mannequin with front and backside to draw the pain location, e.g. please mark your main area of pain and if it radiates to other regions of your body, please draw the direction in which the pain radiates. |
| There are 7 questions which the patient has to answer by ticking one out of 6 optional boxes (never, hardly noticed, slightly, moderately, strongly, very strongly). The questions relate to 7 specific descriptor items within the painful area: 1. Burning |