TY - JOUR
T1 - The Chinese version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-C)
T2 - Its development and use in a study of cancer pain
AU - Wang, Xin Shelley
AU - Mendoza, Tito R.
AU - Gao, Shuo Zheng
AU - Cleeland, Charles S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by grants CA26582 from the National Cancer Institute, Public Health Service, and a special Institutional Grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) SIG no.
PY - 1996/10
Y1 - 1996/10
N2 - We describe the development of a Chinese version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-C) and demonstrate its reliability and validity. We also report the use of the BPI-C in a three hospital study of cancer pain and its treatment. As with other language versions of the BPI, factor analysis of the BPI-C items results in a two factor solution that satisfies the criteria of reproducibility, interpretability and fit in a confirmatory setting. The first factor consists of the four pain severity scales, while the seven pain interference scales comprised the second factor. The BPI-C proved to be a reliable measure of both the severity and impact of pain in patients with cancer. Coefficient alphas for the pain severity and pain interference items were 0.894 and 0.915, respectively. The sample (N = 147) was gathered at three cancer treatment hospitals in Beijing. The patients from these hospitals reported higher levels of pain severity and pain interference compared with patients in similar studies done at the same time (1991-1992) in the United States and France. This was in keeping with the finding that a larger proportion (67%) of the cancer patients in these Beijing hospitals were judged to have inadequate analgesia as assessed by the Pain Management Index (PMI), an estimate of adherence to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for cancer pain management.
AB - We describe the development of a Chinese version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-C) and demonstrate its reliability and validity. We also report the use of the BPI-C in a three hospital study of cancer pain and its treatment. As with other language versions of the BPI, factor analysis of the BPI-C items results in a two factor solution that satisfies the criteria of reproducibility, interpretability and fit in a confirmatory setting. The first factor consists of the four pain severity scales, while the seven pain interference scales comprised the second factor. The BPI-C proved to be a reliable measure of both the severity and impact of pain in patients with cancer. Coefficient alphas for the pain severity and pain interference items were 0.894 and 0.915, respectively. The sample (N = 147) was gathered at three cancer treatment hospitals in Beijing. The patients from these hospitals reported higher levels of pain severity and pain interference compared with patients in similar studies done at the same time (1991-1992) in the United States and France. This was in keeping with the finding that a larger proportion (67%) of the cancer patients in these Beijing hospitals were judged to have inadequate analgesia as assessed by the Pain Management Index (PMI), an estimate of adherence to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for cancer pain management.
KW - Brief Pain Inventory
KW - cancer
KW - pain management
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U2 - 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03147-8
DO - 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03147-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 8951936
AN - SCOPUS:0030272923
SN - 0304-3959
VL - 67
SP - 407
EP - 416
JO - Pain
JF - Pain
IS - 2-3
ER -