Pain Quality Assessment Scale (PQAS)
Instructions: There are different aspects and types of pain that patients experience and that we are interested in measuring. Pain can feel sharp, hot, cold, dull and achy. Some pains may feel like they are very superficial (at skin-level), or they may feel like they are from deep inside your body. Pain can be described as unpleasant and also can have different time qualities.

The Pain Quality Assessment Scale helps us measure these and other different aspects of your pain. For one patient, a pain might feel extremely hot and burning, but not at all dull, while another patient may not experience any burning pain, but feel like their pain is very dull and achy. Therefore, we expect you to rate very high on some of the scales below and very low on others.

Please use the 20 rating scales below to rate how much of each different pain quality and type you may or may not have felt in the LAST 24 HOURS.
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1. Please use the scale below to tell us how INTENSE your pain has been over the LAST 24 HOURS, on average.
No pain
The most INTENSE pain sensation imaginable
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2. Please describe the scale below to tell us how SHARP your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe sharp feelings include "like a knife," "like a spike" or "piercing."
No sharp
The most SHARP sensation imaginable ("like a knife")
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3. Please use the scale below to tell us how HOT your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe hot pain include "burning" and "on fire."
No hot
The most HOT sensation imaginable ("burning")
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4. Please use the scale below to tell us how DULL your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS.
No dull
The most DULL sensation imaginable
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5. Please use the scale below to tell us how COLD your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe very cold pain include "like ice" and "freezing."
No cold
The most COLD sensation imaginable ("freezing")
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6. Please use the scale below to tell us how SENSITIVE your skin has been to light touch or clothing rubbing against it over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe sensitive skin include "like sunburned skin" and "raw skin."
No sensitive
The most SENSITIVE sensation imaginable ("raw skin")
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7. Please use the scale below to tell us how TENDER your pain is when something has pressed against it over the LAST 24 HOURS. Another word used to describe tender pain is "like a bruise."
No tender
The most TENDER sensation imaginable ("like a bruise")
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8. Please use the scale below to tell us how ITCHY your pain has felt for the LAST 24 HOURS. Another word used to describe itchy pain include "like poison ivy" and "like a mosquito bite."
No itchy
The most ITCHY sensation imaginable ("like poison ivy")
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9. Please use the scale below to tell us how much your pain has felt  like it has been SHOOTING over the LAST 24 HOURS. Another word used to describe itchy pain include "zapping."
No shotting
The most SHOTTING sensation imaginable ("zapping")
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10. Please use the scale below to tell us how NUMB your pain has felt for the LAST 24 HOURS. Another word used to describe numb pain include "like it is asleep."
No numb
The most NUMB sensation imaginable ("asleep")
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11. Please use the scale below to tell us how much your pain sensations have felt ELECTRICAL over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe electrical pain include "shocks","lightning" and "sparkling."
No electrical
The most ELECTRICAL sensation imaginable ("shocks")
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12. Please use the scale below to tell us how TINGLING your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe "like pins and needles" and "prickling."
No tingling
The most TINGLING sensation imaginable ("pins and needles")
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13. Please use the scale below to tell us how CRAMPING your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe cramping pain include "squeezing and "tight."
No cramping
The most CRAMPING sensation imaginable ("squeezing")
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14. Please use the scale below to tell us how "RADIATING" your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Another word used to describe radiating pain is "speading."
No radiating
The most RADIATING sensation imaginable ("spreading")
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15. Please use the scale below to tell us how THROBBING your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Another word used to describe throbbing pain is "pounding."
No throbbing
The most THROBBING sensation imaginable ("pounding")
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16. Please use the scale below to tell us how "ACHING" your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Another word used to describe aching pain is "like a toothache"
No aching
The most ACHING sensation imaginable ("like a toothache")
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17. Please use the scale below to tell us how HEAVY your pain has felt over the LAST 24 HOURS. Other words to describe heavy pain are "pressure", and "weighted down."
No heavy
The most HEAVY sensation imaginable ("weighted down")
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18. Now that you have told us the different types of pain sensations you have felt,we want you to tell us overall how UNPLEASANT your pain has been to you over the LAST 24 HOURS. Words used to describe very umpleasant pain "annoying","bothersome","miserable",and "intolerable". Remember, pain can have a low intensity but still feel extremely unpleasant , and some kinds of pain can have a high intensity but be very tolerable.With this scale, please tell us how UNPLEASANT your pain feels.
No unpleasant
The most UNPLEASANT sensation imaginable ("intolerable")
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We want you to give us an estimate of the severity of your DEEP versus SURFACE pain over the LAST 24 HOURS. We want you to rate each location of pain separately. We realize that it can be difficult to make these estimates,and most likely it will be a "best guess," but please give us your best estimate.
19a. How intense is your DEEP pain?
No deep pain
The most INTENSE DEEP pain sensation imaginable
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19b. How intense is your SURFACE pain?
No surface pain
The most INTENSE SURFACE pain sensation imaginable
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20. Pain can also have different time qualities. For some people, they have some moments that are completely without pain; in other words the pain "comes and goes". This is called INTERMITTENT pain. Others are never pain free, but their pain types and pain severity can vary from one moment to the next. This is called VARIABLE pain. For these people, the increase can be severe, so that they feel they have moments of very intense pain ("breakthrough" pain), but at other times they can feel lower levels of pain ("background" pain). Still, they are never pain free. Other people have pain that really does not change that much from one moment to another. This is called STABLE pain.
Which of these best describes the time pattern of your pain (please select only one):
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