Abstract
This study reports the development of a version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) in Vietnamese and compares responses of Vietnamese cancer patients in pain with patients in the US. Reports that the BPI is able to separately measure the severity of pain and the interference caused by pain are supported. Factor analysis indicates that US an Vietnamese cancer patients give similar responses to pain severity and pain interference items. Because Vietnamese patients receive few analgesics, we predicted they would report greater pain severity. A discriminant function was formed from pain ratings the BPI which separated Vietnamese patients from patients from two Wisconsin hospitals. Vietnamese patients reported higher pain severity but not higher pain interference.
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