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Pain Management 2019 & Internal Medicine 2019
International Journal of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
ISSN: 2471-982X
Page 64
JOINT EVENT
7
th
Edition of International Conference on
Pain Management
8
th
Edition of International Conference on
Internal Medicine &
Patient Care
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March 25-26, 2019
Rome, Italy
Int J Anesth Pain Med 2019, Volume 5
DOI: 10.21767/2471-982X-C1-006
Testing the validity and reliability of the Arabic version
of the pain detect questionnaire in the assessment of
neuropathic pain
Amani Abu-Shaheen
1
, Isamme A L Fayyad
1
, Humariya Heena
1
, Shehu Yousef
1
,
Sarfaraz Khan
1
, Muhammad Riaz
2
and
Abdullah Nofal
3
1
King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia
2
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
3
King Saud University Medical City, Saudi Arabia
Introduction:
Neuropathic pain (NP) can cause
substantial suffering and therefore, it must be diagnosed
and treated promptly. Diagnosis of NP can be difficult
and if made by an expert pain physician is considered
the gold standard however, where expert help may not be
easily available, screening tools for NP can be used. The
pain detect questionnaire (PD-Q) is a simple screening
tool and has been widely used in several languages.
We developed an Arabic version of PD-Q and tested its
validity and reliability.
Methods:
Theoriginal PD-Qwas translated into theArabic
language by a team of experts. The translated version
of the PD-Q was administered to the study population,
which included patients having moderate to severe pain
for at least three months. Reliability of the Arabic version
was evaluated by an intra-class-correlation coefficient
(ICC) between pre- and post-measures and Cronbach’s
α values. Validity was measured by receiver operating
characteristic (ROC) curve. Expert pain physician
diagnosis was considered as the gold standard for
comparing the diagnostic accuracy.
Results:
A total of 375 patients were included in the
study, of which 153 (40.8%) patients were diagnosed with
NP and 222 [59.2%] patients had nociceptive pain. The
ICC between pre and post-PD-Q scale total scores for
the overall sample, NP group, and NocP group was 0.970
(95% CI, 0.964±0.976), 0.963 (95% CI, 0.949±0.973), and
0.962 (95%CI, 0.951±0.971), respectively.TheCronbach’s
α values for the post-assessment measures in the overall
sample, NP group, and nociceptive pain group, were
0.764, 0.684, and 0.746, respectively. The area under the
ROC curve was 0.775 (95% CI, 0.725±0.825) for the PDQ
Conclusion:
In summary, we developed theArabic version
of the PD-Q and tested its psychometric properties. The
Arabic version of PD-Q demonstrated good reliability and
validity. A large-scale study in the Arabic population is
required to confirm the results of this study further and
further affirm the validity and reliability of the Arabic
version of the PD-Q..
aabushaheen@kfmc.med.sa