An evaluation of the severity of labour pain in comparison to other forms of pain using the McGill Pain Questionnaire.Note the effect of 'Prepared Childbirth Training' in reducing the intensity of pain experienced by primiparae.
The Pain Rating Index is derived by ranking the values of 20 sets of pain-descriptive words.
Data have been replotted by the editors from: Melzack R 1984. 'The Myth of Painless Childbirth.'