Bath Adolescent Pain Questionnaire – adolescent report (BAPQ) and parent report (BAPQ-P)

Author of Tool: 

Eccleston, Jordan, McCracken, Sleed, Connell & Clinch

Key references: 

Eccleston C, Jordan A, McCracken L, Sleed, M, Connell, H, Clinch, J (2005) The Bath Adolescent Pain Questionnaire (BAPQ): Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of an instrument to assess the impact of chronic pain on adolescents. Pain, 118, 263-270.

Eccleston C, McCracken LM, Jordan, A, Sleed, M. (2007) Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of the parent report version of the Bath Adolescent Pain Questionnaire (BAPQ-P): a multidimensional parent report instrument to assess the impact of chronic pain on adolescents. Pain, 131; 48-56.

Primary use / Purpose: 

The measure assesses the impact of chronic pain in adolescence in terms of physical, psychological and social functioning. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of a case of adolescent pain, responses may be taken from both adolescent report and parent report forms, or alternatively the parent form may be used where self-report is not possible.

Background: 

As chronic pain can have widespread negative impacts in an adolescent’s lifestye and development,ath Adolescent Pain Questionnaire – adolescent report (BAPQ) and parent report (BAPQ-P) can be used in both research and clinical settings. The availability of alternate adolescent and parent report forms can be an advantage in many cases.

Psychometrics: 

Reliability and validity of the adolescent-report form is discussed in Eccleston, Jordan, McCracken, Sleed, Connell & Clinch (2005) while
Eccleston, McCracken, Jordan and Sleed (2007) deals with the psychometric properties of the parent-report form.

Keywords: 

• Anxiety
• Family

Files: 

adolescent reportparent report

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 

https://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.210