Pain in amaXhosa women living with HIV/AIDS: a cross-sectional study of ambulant outpatients

BMC Women's Health

Table 1 Pain Severity Scores and Pain Interference Scores from the BPI-Xhosa (n = 170)

	Mean ± SD
Pain Severity Score (mean of worst, least, average, now)	5.06 ± 1.57
Worst pain	7.52 ± 1.73
Least pain	4.65 ± 1.73
Average pain	3.93 ± 1.86
Pain now	4.14 ± 2.69
Pain Interference Score (mean of pain interference with activity, mood, walking, normal work, relations, sleep and enjoyment of life)	6.39 ± 1.96
Pain interference with activity	6.52 ± 2.56
Pain interference with mood	6.63 ± 2.76
Pain interference with ability to walk	6.18 ± 2.77
Pain interference with ability to do normal work	6.11 ± 2.68
Pain interference with relations with other people	5.89 ± 2.96
Pain interference with sleep	6.56 ± 2.78
Pain interference with enjoyment of life	7.07 ± 2.46

Pain Severity Scores and Pain Interference Scores range from 0–10 with higher scores indicating greater pain severity or greater pain interference with function
Data previously published in Parker at al (2016) [21]

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