>hi
can anyone please help with below
>i have been looking at some results from the aplication of the mcgill pain
>questionnire
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>my query relates to question 19 (cool, cold, freezing)
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>this question has been coded 1,2,3
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>i am calculating scale weights based on the paper by melzack (1975)
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>i will give an example of the scale weights for question 15 (wretched
>coded 1, blinding coded 2) with scale weights of 3.16 and 3.45 respectively
>
>with reference to question 19 , as there are no scale weights available i
>was planning to use 1,2,3 respectively for the weight, another colleague
>has ignored the question altogether , therefore excluding it from the
>analysis - i do not think that it is correct to exclude from the analysis
>
>can anyone who has used this scale , please advise what is the (best) way
>to deal with this question
>regards
>ann
>
>
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