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CPAQ-D
Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire - deutsche Fassung
Short abstract
The questionnaire measures aspects of "pain acceptance", defined as "efforts to maintain one's own functional level despite existing limitations and the tendency not to want to avoid pain at all costs" (Nilges et al., 2007, p. 60). People with high pain acceptance therefore focus their attention less on pain and its elimination than on opportunities to actively participate in private, social and professional life despite certain pain-related impairments. The CPAQ-D contains 20 statements relating to the management and evaluation of chronic pain. They are grouped into two subscales: (1) Willingness in activity (k = 10) and (2) Willingness in pain (k = 8). Reliability: Cronbach's alpha is alpha = .84-.87. Validity: Both CPAQ-D subscales and the overall scale correlated moderately to highly negatively with indicators of mental stress (e.g. General Depression Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale - German Version, Coping Strategies Questionnaire , PDI, SES). On the other hand, there were no or only minor correlations with other pain measures, e.g. the chronification stage according to the Mainz stage concept of chronic pain, sensory pain intensity, previous pain duration in years and other indicators of pain intensity as well as experimentally recorded differences in the thermal pain threshold. In addition, no correlation between the current pain intensity and pain acceptance could be demonstrated (r = .16).
Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). (2019). Open Test Archive: CPAQ-D. Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire - deutsche Fassung. Available at: https://www.testarchiv.eu/en/test/9005784
Citation
Nilges, P., Köster, B. & Schmidt, C. O. (2011). CPAQ-D. Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire - deutsche Fassung [Verfahrensdokumentation und Fragebogen mit Auswertungsanleitung]. In Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) (Hrsg.), Open Test Archive. Trier: ZPID.
https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.4574
Short information
Short Name CPAQ-D
English Name Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire - German version
Authors Nilges, P., Köster, B., Schmidt, C.O.
Published in Test archive 2011
Copyright/Licence Copyright Authors; CC-BY-SA 4.0
Key words Chronic Pain, Pain Perception, Coping Behavior, Disease Management
Language versions deu
Construct Pain acceptance
Application age Adults
Item number 20 items
Subscales (1) Willingness in activity, (2) Willingness in pain
Application Time approx. 5-10 min.
Interpretation time No information.
Internal consistency: Cronbach's Alpha is Alpha = .84-.87.
Findings on construct validity.
Percentiles (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th percentile)
Applications Research
There is no abstract in English available. Short information about the measure can be found under Overview. More can be found on the German pages.
There is no review in English available. Short information about the measure can be found under Overview. More can be found on the German pages.
First published in
Nilges, P., Köster, B. & Schmidt, C. O. (2007). Schmerzakzeptanz - Konzept und Überprüfung einer deutschen Fassung des Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire. Der Schmerz, 21 (1), 57-67. PSYNDEX Dok.-Nr. 0194979
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Contact information
Prof. Dr. rer. med. Dr. phil. Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Universität Greifswald, Institut für Community Medicine, Abt. Methoden der Community Medicine, Walther-Rathenau-Straße 48, D-17487 Greifswald
Prof. Lance M. McCracken, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Uppsala Universitet, Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C, SWE-752 37 Uppsala, Sweden
Dr. Paul Nilges, Dipl.-Psych.