Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: An examination of the psychometric structure of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory in temporomandibular disorder patients: a confirmatory factor analysis | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Open Access An examination of the psychometric structure of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory in temporomandibular disorder patients a confirmatory factor analysis Yolanda Andreu1 Maria J Galdon1 Estrella Durá1 Maite Ferrando 1 Juan Pascual2 Dennis C Turk3 Yolanda Jiménez4 and Rafael Poveda4 Address Department of Personality Assessment and Psychological Treatment University of Valencia Spain - Department of Methodology Psychobiology and Social Psychology University of Valencia Spain 3Department of Anaesthesiology University of Washington US and 4Service of Stomatology University of Valencia General Hospital Spain Email Yolanda Andreu - yandreu@ Maria J Galdon - Estrella Durá - edura@ Maite Ferrando - Juan Pascual - Dennis C Turk - turkdc@ Yolanda Jimenez - quin@ Rafael Poveda - raf_poveda@ Corresponding author Published 14 December 2006 Head Face Medicine 2006 2 48 doi 1746-160X-2-48 Received 05 April 2006 Accepted 14 December 2006 This article is available from http content 2 1 48 2006 Andreu et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background This paper seeks to analyse the psychometric and structural properties of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory MPI in a sample of temporomandibular disorder patients. Methods The internal consistency of the scales was obtained. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out to test the MPI structure section by section in a sample of 114 temporomandibular disorder patients. Results Nearly all scales obtained good reliability .
