Turkish Version of the Worry About Pain Questionnaire

Istinye University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain; Pain, Chronic

Treatments: Other: Assessment Group

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06052228

21-39

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pain is one of the main complaints that causes people to apply to health institutions. Pain is seen as a passive warning signal of an underlying disease process; When it becomes chronic, it is considered a disease on its own. Pain that persists longer than the expected recovery time is defined as chronic pain.

Pain is associated with a number of psychological, physical, and social factors. Clinical observations report that various psychological problems, especially anxiety, and depression, accompany chronic pain, and the long-term persistence of pain significantly impacts a patient's quality of life. Chronic musculoskeletal pain causes fatigue, sleep disruption, and activity and participation restrictions. Therefore, evaluation of pain originating from the musculoskeletal system and factors that cause and increase pain need to be addressed from a biopsychosocial perspective. Chronic pain is an ideal environment for anxiety to develop. If the person's chronic pain cannot be resolved, anxiety increases and the anxiety becomes excessive, the person may lose the ability to distinguish what is dangerous from what is not, as he cannot evaluate pain-related cues properly. Anxiety and depression scales are often used to assess the long-term psychosocial consequences of chronic musculoskeletal pain. However, these scales are inadequate to explain the relationship between pain and anxiety. The Worry About Pain Questionnaire is a self-report scale of 15 items specifically developed to assess pain-related pressure.

To our knowledge, there is no standard, valid, and reliable Turkish questionnaire in the literature that evaluates the pain-related concerns of individuals with musculoskeletal pain and takes into account the cultural differences of Turkish patients. For this reason, our study aims to translate and culturally adapt the Worry About Pain Questionnaire into Turkish in individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain and to examine the psychometric properties of the Turkish Worry About Pain Questionnaire.

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being able to read and write in Turkish
• Not having any cognitive impairment
• Having chronic musculoskeletal pain
• Being over 18 years of age
• Being willing and volunteer to work

Exclusion criteria

• Having a complaint of pain in the musculoskeletal system due to cancer, fracture or surgery within the last 6 months.
• Having severe cognitive impairment
• Having a systemic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus
• Having any neuromuscular disease (such as MS, myopathy)

Trial design

85 participants in 1 patient group

Assessment Group

Description:

Evaluation forms will be applied to the participant who meets the inclusion criteria by face-to-face interview method. The sociodemographic information of the participants and the time taken to answer the questions in the questionnaires will vary according to each participants but will take approximately 45 minutes. The second interview will be conducted with the patients for test-retest application at 1-week intervals.

Treatment:

Other: Assessment Group