Pain Self Perception Scale - Score calculator
Pain Self Perception Scale - Self-administration tool
Please note: These questions are not kept or submitted to any third party. This scale is designed to be done by individuals on their own to indicate whether they might experience high levels of mental defeat and would therefore benefit from discussing this further with a health professional. Scoring 15 or higher on this scale is a good indication that an individual might experience higher levels of mental defeat and might benefit from further discussion with a health professional.
Each adjective in the PSPS is awarded the following score:
0- Not at all/ Never
1- Very little
2- Moderately
3- Strongly
4- Very strongly
The total score can be calculated by adding the responses to the 24 items, resulting in a score between 0 and 96.
You have the option to either fill out the PSPS below or download it for completion.
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This questionnaire is about how you felt during a recent episode of intense pain. Can you recall such a pain episode?
| How long ago was the pain episode? |
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| Where was the pain? |
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| What caused the pain? |
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| How long did the episode last for? |
In the following, you will find a number of statements that describe thoughts and feelings that people sometimes experience at a time when they are in intense pain. Please rate the extent to which these statements applied to your experience during the episode of intense pain by selecting the appropriate number/box. There are no right or wrong answers to these questions.
| Because of the pain ... | Not at all (0) |
Very little (1) |
Moderately (2) |
Strongly (3) |
Very strongly (4) |
| 1 ... I felt defeated by life | |||||
| 2 ... I felt I had lost my standing in the world | |||||
| 3 ... I felt life had treated me like a punchbag | |||||
| 4 ... I felt powerless | |||||
| 5 ... I felt like my confidence was knocked out of me | |||||
| 6 ... I didn’t feel able to deal with the things that life threw at me | |||||
| 7 ... I felt like I had sunk to the bottom of the ladder | |||||
| 8 ... I felt completely knocked out of action | |||||
| 9 ... I felt like one of life’s losers | |||||
| 10 ... I felt that I had given up | |||||
| 11 ... I felt down and out | |||||
| 12 ... I felt I had lost important battles in life | |||||
| 13 ... I felt there was no fight left in me | |||||
| 14 ... I felt I was losing my will power | |||||
| 15 ... I didn’t care what happened to me any more | |||||
| 16 ... I felt defeated | |||||
| 17 ... I felt less like a human being | |||||
| 18 ... in my mind, I gave up | |||||
| 19 ... I felt destroyed as a person | |||||
| 20 ... I felt like I wanted to die | |||||
| 21 ... I felt I was losing my inner resistance | |||||
| 22 ... I felt like an object | |||||
| 23 ... I felt completely at the mercy of what was happening to me | |||||
| 24 ... I felt humiliated and that I was losing my sense of inner dignity | |||||
| Score calculator | |||||
| Privacy notice | This form is anonymous. No data which personally identifies the patient is collected on the form. This is purely for the use of patients to collate information about their pain episodes for later discussion with their clinicians. The University of Warwick is the Data Controller of any information you have entered on this form and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with Data Protection Legislation. The University's Data Protection webpages provide further information on your rights and how the University processes personal data. If you wish to submit a data subjects rights request, make a complaint or report a suspected personal data breach, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer by email at infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk. |
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