Pain is a personal, subjective experience influenced by cultural, situational, attentive factors, and other psychological variables. Approaches to the measurement of pain include verbal and numeric self-rating scales, behavioral observational scales, and physiological indicators. In this review, we described and analyzed as sophisticated psychophysical techniques can be designed to measure separately the sensory and cognitive dimensions of pain. These procedures have been shown to be valid and reliable measurements of pain with ratio-scaling properties and have recently been used in clinical settings.
Pain perception; Pain; Pain assessment
