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Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)

[ BPI-SF: BPI short form ]

	Author(s)
Cleeland Charles S

Purpose

Pathology:

Nervous system diseases
Pathological conditions signs and symptoms

Disease:

Pain

Objective:

To assess the severity of pain and the impact of pain on daily functions

Population for intended use:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Signs and symptoms

Administration mode:

IVR-version
Interviewer-administered
Self-administered

[ Self-administered and interviewer-administered versions are identical. Mode of administration depends on patient's ability to fill-in the questionnaire.
IVR = Interactive Voice Response System by telephone ]

Number of items:

BPI: 56, BPI-SF: 15

Existence of database:

Recall/Observation period:

The past week / The past 24 hours

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the USA

List of existing translations:

The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.

This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors

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BPI and BPI-SF:

Afrikaans	Finnish	Korean	Slovak
Arabic	French	Malay	Slovenian
Bengali	German	Malayalam	Spanish
Bulgarian	Greek	Marathi	Spanish for Latin America
Cebuano	Gujarathi	Norwegian	Swedish
Chinese	Hebrew	Polish	Tamil
Croatian	Hindi	Portuguese	Telugu
Czech	Hungarian	Portuguese for Brazil	Thai
Danish	Italian	Romanian	Turkish
Dutch	Japanese	Russian	Ukrainian
Filipino	Kannada	Serbian

See the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center website

Last update: November 2009
Last update in collaboration with the author: May 2003