• Yunmei Ding, Yanyan Zhang, and Shouwei Yue.
• School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Shandong University, Jinan City, Shandong Province, China.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2024 Dec 4.

BackgroundThe Pain Relief Motivation Scale (PRMS) was administered to chronic pain sufferers and predicts their psychological well-being. However, the Chinese version of the PRMS has not undergone psychometric validation.ObjectivesThe PRMS will be psychometrically validated in patients with neuropathic pain-induced chronic pain from mainland China.MethodsThis cross-sectional study involved 340 patients with neuropathic chronic pain from China. The measurability of the Chinese version of the PRMS was determined by the critical ratio between items, and reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The study also examined the validity of the construction and criterion validity of the Chinese PRMS.ResultsThe Chinese version of the PRMS had critical ratio (CR) values ranging from 4.044 to 15.977 (p < 0.05). The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the scale was 0.821, and the Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the subscales ranged from 0.663 to 0.961. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) showed that five variables accounted for 77.73% of the total variance. The results of the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) supported the framework for the assessment of the 21-item PRMS. The Chinese version of the PRMS was positively correlated with the General Self-Efficacy Scale in the correlation validity analyses (r = 0.458, p < .001).ConclusionThe Chinese version of the PRMS has powerful validity and reliability and can be used to assess the level of the motivation for pain alleviation in people with pain, serving as a reference for the development of intervention programs for healthcare providers.Copyright © 2024 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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