Patient-related barriers to pain management: the Icelandic Barriers Questionnaire II

• Published in: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
• Main Authors: Gunnarsdottir, Sigridur, Serlin, Ronald C, Ward, Sandra
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2005
• Subjects: Pain; Attitude to Health; Health Services Accessibility; Questionnaires; Feasibility Studies; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results; Humans; Adult; Middle Aged; Female; Iceland; Research Support; N.I.H.; Extramural; Non-U.S. Gov't; U.S. Gov't; P.H.S
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/2833; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2004.06.015

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field The Barriers Questionnaire-II (BQ-II) is used to evaluate eight attitudinal barriers to cancer pain management. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Icelandic BQ-II (IBQ-II). Icelandic adults (n=244) completed the IBQ-II, the Brief-Pain-Inventory, and demographic questions. Half the responders were male (52%), and 42.8% had pain on the day of data collection. Participants had a mean (SD) age of 34.73 (11.78) years and education of 15.08 (3.69) years. Factor analysis of the IBQ-II supported three factors. The alpha was 0.90. The mean (SD) IBQ-II total score was 2.32 (0.78), on a scale of 0 to 5, with higher scores indicating stronger barriers. IBQ-II total scores were inversely related to education (r=-0.21; P<0.01), and positively related to least pain (r=0.24; P<0.05), average pain (r=0.23; P<0.05), and pain interference with life activities (r=0.22; P<0.05) for those who had pain. There is support for reliability, validity, and feasibility of the IBQ-II.