Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients reported that the instrument’s questions, recall period and response scale were easy to understand. A ...

The Skin Pain Numeric Rating Scale, Worst-Itch Numeric Rating Scale, and Dermatology Life Quality Index were evaluated for their content validity, fit-for-purpose, and psychometric and measurement ...

Background: Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be ...

Numerical rating scale pain scores accurately measure pain intensity in relation to perceived need for medicine, pain relief and pain satisfaction in children, according to a study published in ...

Some types of pain affect cognitive ability, including number sense, and yet some tools to assess pain use numerical scales. A recent study sought to determine if number sense is altered in patients ...

This study, comparing NRS and VRS psychometric properties in the assessment of pain exacerbations, reveals a significantly higher discriminatory capability of NRS in distinguishing between background ...