Designing, Making and Evaluating Psychometric Characteristics of Pain Metaphorical Perception Questionnaire in Persian-Speaking Patients with Chronic Diseases

Pain is one of the abstract concepts in the field of health psychology, which is expressed with conceptual metaphors. Persian-language speakers, like other languages, apply different source domains and mappings. The purpose of this study was to design, make and evaluate the psychometric characteristics of a pain metaphorical perception questionnaire in Persian-speaking patients with chronic diseases. The method of this study was descriptive and psychometric and it was a survey type of research. based on the cognitive analysis of Raiisi's pain metaphors(۲۰۲۱), nine metaphorical mappings were extracted, which were respectively object, causality, path and direction, human, place, taste, container, force, and circle. Based on source domains, a questionnaire with۲۵ questions was created using a Likert response scale. The content validity of questions was evaluated by۳ cognitive linguistics experts,۲ health psychologists,۳ physicians, and۲ psychometric experts. the questionnaire was completed availability and voluntarily by ۲۵۰ monolingual Persian-speaking patients with chronic diseases in۲۰۲۲-۲۰۲۳. The results indicated that there was a reliability coefficient by using Cronbach's alpha for the whole questionnaire and its components. the result of the factor analysis showed that this questionnaire consists of four factors including object, force, human, and causality, which explain۲۴.۶۶% of the total variance of the factors.

Keywords:

Psychometric Characteristics , Pain Metaphorical Perception Questionnaire , Chronic Diseases , Persian-Speaking Patients , ویژگی های روان سنجی , پرسشنامه ادراک استعاری درد , بیماران دارای بیماری مزمن , فارسی زبان.