Brief Pain Inventory.

BPI

What it measures

Pain severity (worst/least/average/now) and pain interference with 7 life domains (general activity, mood, walking, work, relations, sleep, enjoyment of life); plus body map and relief from treatment

Length and format

Short Form 9 (with subitems); Long Form 32. 0-10 numeric rating scales + body diagram (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Dozens of languages (the short form is the translation standard; ES, ZH, JA, KO, IT, NO, PL, RU, and many more)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Cleeland, C. S., & Ryan, K. M. (1994). Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 23(2), 129-138.