Greek Brief Pain Inventory: Validation and Utility in Cancer Pain

Mystakidou, Kyriaki; Mendoza, Tito; Tsilika, Eleni; Befon, Sofia; Parpa, Efi; Bellos, George; Vlahos, Lambros; Cleeland, Charles

doi:10.1159/000055294

Greek Brief Pain Inventory: Validation and Utility in Cancer Pain

Objective The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) is a pain assessment tool. It has been translated into and validated in several languages. The purpose of this study was the translation into and validation of the BPI in Greek. Moreover, we wanted to detect cultural and social differences, if any, of pain…