Many of these tools are valid and reliable - others are not. Some are valid for some populations of patients and not for others.
Different tools provide assessment of different aspects of pain.
These tools can be very useful in intervention planning as well as for use as outcome assessments. There is no perfect tool - you'll need to be able to decide when a given tool is valuable and when another tool should be chosen. The purpose of this independent-learning project is to review a variety of common pain assessment measures to determine what useful information you can collect, to look at their reliability and validity, and to evaluate their strengths and weaknesses. I will need one copy of the results turned into me with the name of all group participants. Part two must be completed by everyone individually.