title: Development of the Geop-Pain questionnaire for multidisciplinary assessment of pain sensitivity.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To assess the multidisciplinary aspects of pain, various self-rating questionnaires have been developed, but there have not been sufficient relevant studies on this topic in South Korea. The aim of this study was to develop a new pain sensitivity-related questionnaire in the Korean language that would be simple and would well reflect Koreans' senses.
  
  
  METHODS
  A new pain assessment questionnaire was developed through a pre-survey on "geop", which is the Korean word expressing fear, anxiety, or catastrophizing. We named the new assessment questionnaire the Geop-Pain Questionnaire (GPQ). The GPQ was composed of 15 items divided into three categories and rated on a 5-point scale. As a preliminary study, internal consistency and test-retest reliability analyses were conducted. Subsequently, 109 individuals completed the GPQ along with three pain-related questionnaires translated into Korean (Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire [PSQ], Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale [PASS], and Pain Catastrophizing Scale [PCS]), and the correlations were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All items in the GPQ showed appropriate internal consistency, and the test-retest reliability analysis showed no statistically significant differences. The correlations between the GPQ and the existing questionnaires revealed that the GPQ scores had mid-positive correlations with the PSQ scores and strong positive correlations with the PASS and PCS scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study attempted to develop a questionnaire assessing pain sensitivity multidimensionally using the Korean word geop for the first time. The self-rating GPQ showed high correlations with the existing questionnaires and demonstrated potential to be utilized as a pain prediction index in clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Sung-Hwan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Su-Hwan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Mi-Soon
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Bon-Sung
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Joon-Ho
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Sang-Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Won Seok
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Chae
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Hee Cheol
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Jeong Seok
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Yong-Ik
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Kim
keywords: Anxiety; Catastrophization; Korean language; Multidisciplinary; Surveys and questionnaires