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Reliability and validity of Mee-Bunney Psychological Pain Assessment Scale Turkish version

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In this study, we aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Mee Bunney Psychological Pain Assessment Scale (MBPPAS), which questions the frequency, intensity and acute period of psychological pain. We also aimed to investigate whether psychological pain allows measuring acute suicidal behavior; and whether there were different levels of psychological pain in suicide-related disorders. The study included 73 patients with major depressive disorder, 50 patients with bipolar disorder and 77 healthy controls. MBPPAS, Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation, Beck Hopelessness Scale, Physical Pain Scale, and Psychache Scale were filled by the participants. In the internal consistency, the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was found to be 0.95 and the item-total score correlation coefficients were between 0.51 and 0.89. Explanatory factor analysis showed that the scale was loaded under the single factor, which had an eigenvalue of 7.02, explaining 70.23% of the total variance. Factor loads of the items were found between 0.57 and 0.92. Discriminant function analysis showed that the scale classified the patient group and the healthy group, also the patients with and without suicide attempt, and each group was classified as successfully when the three groups were considered together. Besides the fact that the Turkish version of the scale is valid and reliable, it has been shown that it can be useful (partially) in the studies conducted with patients in the acute phase and in distinguishing disorders from each other in suicide-related entities such as mood disorders.

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We wish to thank Christopher Reist and Steve Mee for the permission and sharing their experiments.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Çukurova University Hospital, Adana, Turkey

    Mehmet Emin Demirkol & Lut Tamam

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Erenköy Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, İstanbul, Turkey

    Hüseyin Güleç, Medine Yazıcı Güleç & Sertaç Alay Öztürk

  3. Psikiyatri Anabilim Dalı, Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Balcalı Kampüsü 01330 Sarıçam, Adana, Turkey

    Lut Tamam

  4. Department of Psychiatry, Malatya Training and Research Hospital, Malatya, Turkey

    Kerim Uğur

  5. Department of Psychiatry, Dr Ekrem Tok Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, Adana, Turkey

    Mahmut Onur Karaytuğ

  6. Department of Psychiatry, Haydarpaşa Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey

    Meliha Zengin Eroğlu

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[Finding the subject: LT, HG, MED; Literature review: LT, HG, MED, MYG, SAÖ, MZE; Conducting research: MED, LT, MOK, KU; Applying Scales: MED; Statistical Analysis: HG, LT, MED; Writing the manuscript: MED, HG, LT, MYG, SAÖ, KU, MOK, MZE; Review the manuscript: LT, HG, MED] All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Demirkol, M.E., Güleç, H., Tamam, L. et al. Reliability and validity of Mee-Bunney Psychological Pain Assessment Scale Turkish version. Curr Psychol 39, 1181–1188 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00400-z

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