ABSTRACT
Pain experience is a result of physiological, psychological, and behavioral processes (1), and it achieves meaning within a cultural context (2,3). The need to measure pain arises in a variety of situations in both clinical and research settings, and more than one of these domains should be sampled to adequately assess the multidimensional nature of pain (4,5). A variety of measures have been developed to assess each component of the pain experience. These include subjective self-report of the sensory and hedonic motivational properties of pain, measures of pain behaviors, measurements of the physiological component of pain experience (6), including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology (7), which are more widely used in experimental work.
