Scaling the Intensities of Pain Descriptors

To develop culturally responsive pain measures, informants evaluated 15 self-generated descriptors on a 0–100 intensity scale. Ratings ranged from “stabbing” (high) to “tiring-exhausting” (low). Thematic analysis identified four linguistic subtypes. Cronbach’s alpha (α = .89) indicated strong internal consistency, supporting the descriptors as a reliable measure of pain intensity.