Urdu pain words

ABSTRACT

This study presents the Urdu version of the McGill Pain questionnaire [MPQ] developed by partially adapted methodology originally employed by Melzack and Torgerson. Four groups of subjects participated. Each groups [n=35] presented a preliminary translation of the MPQ and asked to assign an intensity rating out of the 5 - points intensity scale to each 106 adjectives. Finally the adjectives whose translation and rating were more closer were selected