Use of goal attainment scaling in inpatient rehabilitation for persons with multiple sclerosis.

Objectives: To use goal attainment scaling (GAS) to measure clinically important functional change in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) and to assess its responsiveness compared with standard measures used to evaluate progress in rehabilitation.

Design: Prospective, observational cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary inpatient rehabilitation unit in Victoria, Australia.

The Pain Beliefs Questionnaire: an investigation of beliefs in the causes and consequences of pain.

This paper reports the development and validation of the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ). This is a 20-item questionnaire covering beliefs about the cause and treatment of pain. It was administered to 294 subjects, comprising 100 chronic pain patients and 194 controls.