Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil · Apr 1989
The Functional Assessment Screening Questionnaire: application for evaluating pain-related disability.
The Functional Assessment Screening Questionnaire (FASQ) is a 15-item checklist which was developed for primary care populations and may serve as a questionnaire method for evaluating disability which is associated with chronic pain. One hundred fifty-eight patients completed the FASQ as part of an initial multidisciplinary evaluation of chronic pain. Reliability was reaffirmed through split-half and alternate-form methods. ⋯ Patients with back pain reported the most difficulty; those with head pain and genital pain reported the least difficulty. An internal structure appropriate to chronic pain populations was discerned, with two general factors measuring either physical-motoric or cognitive-social aspects of disability. Aside from constraints associated with the use of self-report methods, the FASQ may be helpful as part of efforts to portray pain-related disability.