• Judith M Schlaeger, Li-Chueh Weng, Hsiu-Li Huang, Hsiu-Hsin Tsai, Miho Takayama, Srisuda Ngamkham, Yingwei Yao, and Diana J Wilkie.
• Department of Women, Children and Family Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2019 Oct 1; 20 (5): 425-431.

BackgroundThe McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) pain quality descriptors have been analyzed to characterize the sensory, affective, and evaluative domains of pain, but have not been differentiated by pain location.AimTo examine MPQ pain quality descriptors by pain location in outpatients with lung or prostate cancer.DesignCross sectional.SettingsEleven oncology clinics or patients' homes.Subjects264 adult outpatients (80% male; mean age 62.2 ± 10.0 years, 85% White).MethodsSubjects completed a 100 mm visual analogue scale of pain intensity and MPQ clinic or home visit, marking sites where they had pain on a body outline and circling from 78 verbal descriptors those that described their pain. A researcher noted next to the descriptor spontaneous comments about sites feeling like a selected word and queried the subjects about any other words to obtain the site(s).ResultsPain quality descriptors were assigned to all 7 pain locations marked by ≥ 20% of 198 lung or 66 prostate cancer patients. Four pain locations were marked with pain quality descriptors significanlty (p < .05) more frequently for lung cancer (53% chest-aching, burning; 58% back-aching, stabbing; 48% head-aching, sharp; and 19% arms-aching, stabbing) than for prostate cancer, which had significantly more frequent pain locations in the abdomen (64%-aching, burning) and lower back/buttocks (55%-aching, burning).ConclusionsThis type of pain characterization is innovative and has the potential to help implement targeted treatments for patients with cancer and other chronic pain conditions.Copyright © 2019 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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