[Central Sensitization Inventory - a Russian version].

Objective: To develop and validate a Russian version of The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI-R).

Material And Methods: The study included 3 stages: 1) direct and reverse translation, linguistic validation of the questionnaire; 2) assessment of internal consistency, reliability and sensitivity (=50); 3) psychometric validation in the samples of patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (=40), chronic widespread pain (=40), regional chronic low back pain without other specific pain complaints (=40), and in the control sample of informants with no pain complaints (=40).

Results And Conclusion: The Russian version of CSI-R is valid, reliable and can be used in clinical practice as a diagnostic tool for revealing central sensitization.