Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2

**Semantic type:** Intellectual Product

**Definition:** A standardized rating scale developed to evaluate the type and severity of a patients neuropathic or non-neuropathic pain. This revised version contains 22 symptoms associated with neuropathic and non-neuropathic pain which can be completed by the patient. Each symptom is rated on a scale of 0-10 with 0 being no pain and 10 being the worst possible pain. This questionnaire was copyrighted by Ronald Melzack and the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT) in 2009 as well as published in the journal pain (Dworkin R.H., Development and initial validation of an expanded and revised version of the Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF-MPQ-2). Pain, 2009 Jul;144(1-2):35-42).

**Synonyms:** - SFMP2 - SHORT-FORM MPQ-2