Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire.
PSEQ
- What it measures
- Confidence in performing activities despite pain (pain self-efficacy)
- Length and format
- 10 (PSEQ-2 and PSEQ-4 short forms exist). 7-point confidence (0 not at all confident to 6 completely confident); total 0-60 (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages
- 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
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Nicholas, M. K. (2007). The pain self-efficacy questionnaire: taking pain into account. European Journal of Pain, 11(2), 153-163.
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