Mental Pain Questionnaire: Clinimetric Properties of a Potential Global Person-Centred Outcome Measure

Fiammetta Cosci; Danilo Carrozzino; Chiara Patierno; Sara Romanazzo; Carmen Berrocal; Alberto Chiarugi; Francesco De Cesaris; Serena Guiducci; Giovanni Mansueto; Kaj Sparle Christensen; Tom Sensky

doi:10.1002/cpp.70022

Mental Pain Questionnaire: Clinimetric Properties of a Potential Global Person-Centred Outcome Measure

Fiammetta Cosci^*, Danilo Carrozzino, Chiara Patierno, Sara Romanazzo, Carmen Berrocal, Alberto Chiarugi, Francesco De Cesaris, Serena Guiducci, Giovanni Mansueto, Kaj Sparle Christensen, Tom Sensky

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The Mental Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) was developed using a clinimetric approach to bring together the key features of mental pain into a single, brief, transdiagnostic scale. The present study aims at extending the validation of the MPQ to people from three different clinical settings. METHODS: A multicentre, cross-sectional study on adults diagnosed with migraine (n = 256), systemic sclerosis (n = 219), or mental disorders (n = 138) was conducted. The MPQ was administered; Rasch and Mokken analyses were performed to assess clinimetric validity. RESULTS: The overall fit to the Rasch model indicated a misfit, improved by the exclusion of a single item. MPQ showed to be unidimensional. MPQ total score and individual items scalability were optimal except for the same item. The total MPQ score showed an optimal scalability for the systemic sclerosis sample and an acceptable scalability for the migraine and mental disorders samples. Local dependency was found between two pairs of items. Person separation reliability indices (PSI 0.45) showed that the MPQ could not distinguish between groups with different levels of mental pain. CONCLUSION: Mental pain has the potential to serve as a truly generic patient-centred outcome measure. Recommendations are made for revisions of the original MPQ, but these will require testing in further validation studies.

Original language	English
Article number	e70022
Number of pages	9
Journal	Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
Volume	31
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.70022
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2024

Keywords

Mokken analysis
Rasch analysis
clinimetrics
mental pain
patient-centred outcome measure
validity
Humans
Female
Male
Cross-Sectional Studies
Adult
Middle Aged
Reproducibility of Results
Psychometrics
Surveys and Questionnaires/standards
Mental Disorders/psychology diagnosis
Migraine Disorders/psychology diagnosis
Scleroderma, Systemic/psychology complications
Aged
Pain Measurement/methods statistics & numerical data
Outcome Assessment, Health Care/statistics & numerical data methods

Access to Document

10.1002/cpp.70022

Cite this

@article{86b4c0a980e64d7d8d28affb8d283cf4,

title = "Mental Pain Questionnaire: Clinimetric Properties of a Potential Global Person-Centred Outcome Measure",

abstract = "INTRODUCTION: The Mental Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) was developed using a clinimetric approach to bring together the key features of mental pain into a single, brief, transdiagnostic scale. The present study aims at extending the validation of the MPQ to people from three different clinical settings. METHODS: A multicentre, cross-sectional study on adults diagnosed with migraine (n = 256), systemic sclerosis (n = 219), or mental disorders (n = 138) was conducted. The MPQ was administered; Rasch and Mokken analyses were performed to assess clinimetric validity. RESULTS: The overall fit to the Rasch model indicated a misfit, improved by the exclusion of a single item. MPQ showed to be unidimensional. MPQ total score and individual items scalability were optimal except for the same item. The total MPQ score showed an optimal scalability for the systemic sclerosis sample and an acceptable scalability for the migraine and mental disorders samples. Local dependency was found between two pairs of items. Person separation reliability indices (PSI 0.45) showed that the MPQ could not distinguish between groups with different levels of mental pain. CONCLUSION: Mental pain has the potential to serve as a truly generic patient-centred outcome measure. Recommendations are made for revisions of the original MPQ, but these will require testing in further validation studies.",

keywords = "Mokken analysis, Rasch analysis, clinimetrics, mental pain, patient-centred outcome measure, validity, Humans, Female, Male, Cross-Sectional Studies, Adult, Middle Aged, Reproducibility of Results, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires/standards, Mental Disorders/psychology diagnosis, Migraine Disorders/psychology diagnosis, Scleroderma, Systemic/psychology complications, Aged, Pain Measurement/methods statistics & numerical data, Outcome Assessment, Health Care/statistics & numerical data methods",

author = "Fiammetta Cosci and Danilo Carrozzino and Chiara Patierno and Sara Romanazzo and Carmen Berrocal and Alberto Chiarugi and {De Cesaris}, Francesco and Serena Guiducci and Giovanni Mansueto and Christensen, {Kaj Sparle} and Tom Sensky",

year = "2024",

month = nov,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1002/cpp.70022",

language = "English",

volume = "31",

journal = "Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy",

issn = "1063-3995",

publisher = "John Wiley & Sons Inc.",

number = "6",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Mental Pain Questionnaire

T2 - Clinimetric Properties of a Potential Global Person-Centred Outcome Measure

AU - Cosci, Fiammetta

AU - Carrozzino, Danilo

AU - Patierno, Chiara

AU - Romanazzo, Sara

AU - Berrocal, Carmen

AU - Chiarugi, Alberto

AU - De Cesaris, Francesco

AU - Guiducci, Serena

AU - Mansueto, Giovanni

AU - Christensen, Kaj Sparle

AU - Sensky, Tom

PY - 2024/11/1

Y1 - 2024/11/1

N2 - INTRODUCTION: The Mental Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) was developed using a clinimetric approach to bring together the key features of mental pain into a single, brief, transdiagnostic scale. The present study aims at extending the validation of the MPQ to people from three different clinical settings. METHODS: A multicentre, cross-sectional study on adults diagnosed with migraine (n = 256), systemic sclerosis (n = 219), or mental disorders (n = 138) was conducted. The MPQ was administered; Rasch and Mokken analyses were performed to assess clinimetric validity. RESULTS: The overall fit to the Rasch model indicated a misfit, improved by the exclusion of a single item. MPQ showed to be unidimensional. MPQ total score and individual items scalability were optimal except for the same item. The total MPQ score showed an optimal scalability for the systemic sclerosis sample and an acceptable scalability for the migraine and mental disorders samples. Local dependency was found between two pairs of items. Person separation reliability indices (PSI 0.45) showed that the MPQ could not distinguish between groups with different levels of mental pain. CONCLUSION: Mental pain has the potential to serve as a truly generic patient-centred outcome measure. Recommendations are made for revisions of the original MPQ, but these will require testing in further validation studies.

AB - INTRODUCTION: The Mental Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) was developed using a clinimetric approach to bring together the key features of mental pain into a single, brief, transdiagnostic scale. The present study aims at extending the validation of the MPQ to people from three different clinical settings. METHODS: A multicentre, cross-sectional study on adults diagnosed with migraine (n = 256), systemic sclerosis (n = 219), or mental disorders (n = 138) was conducted. The MPQ was administered; Rasch and Mokken analyses were performed to assess clinimetric validity. RESULTS: The overall fit to the Rasch model indicated a misfit, improved by the exclusion of a single item. MPQ showed to be unidimensional. MPQ total score and individual items scalability were optimal except for the same item. The total MPQ score showed an optimal scalability for the systemic sclerosis sample and an acceptable scalability for the migraine and mental disorders samples. Local dependency was found between two pairs of items. Person separation reliability indices (PSI 0.45) showed that the MPQ could not distinguish between groups with different levels of mental pain. CONCLUSION: Mental pain has the potential to serve as a truly generic patient-centred outcome measure. Recommendations are made for revisions of the original MPQ, but these will require testing in further validation studies.

KW - Mokken analysis

KW - Rasch analysis

KW - clinimetrics

KW - mental pain

KW - patient-centred outcome measure

KW - validity

KW - Humans

KW - Female

KW - Male

KW - Cross-Sectional Studies

KW - Adult

KW - Middle Aged

KW - Reproducibility of Results

KW - Psychometrics

KW - Surveys and Questionnaires/standards

KW - Mental Disorders/psychology diagnosis

KW - Migraine Disorders/psychology diagnosis

KW - Scleroderma, Systemic/psychology complications

KW - Aged

KW - Pain Measurement/methods statistics & numerical data

KW - Outcome Assessment, Health Care/statistics & numerical data methods

U2 - 10.1002/cpp.70022

DO - 10.1002/cpp.70022

M3 - Article

SN - 1063-3995

VL - 31

JO - Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

JF - Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

IS - 6

M1 - e70022

ER -

Mental Pain Questionnaire: Clinimetric Properties of a Potential Global Person-Centred Outcome Measure

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this