Abstract:Objective: Under the background that chronic pain was first included in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF-MPQ-2) was translated into Chinese, and its reliability and validity were tested by sample group. Methods: The research team, together with the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Beijing Normal University, conducted the translation, back-translation and cultural debugging of the English version of SF-MPQ-2 scale. The reliability and validity of the Chinese version of SF-MPQ-2 (SF-MPQ-2-CN) were evaluated by correlation analysis, reliability analysis, principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: According to the seven categories of chronic pain according to ICD-11, Intraclass Correlation Coefficient ( ICC) values for the four dimensions and the whole scale were 0.909, 0.973, 0.988, 0.952 and 0.927 respectively, and the Cronbach"s alpha coefficients of the two assessments were higher than 0.8. Four components (continuous, intermittent, neuropathic, and affective) were extracted by principal component analysis, which were consistent with the predicted SF-MPQ-2-CN. The cumulative variance contribution rate of the four components was 73.55%, and the loading of each factor on the corresponding factors was higher than 0.4. When assessing neuropathic pain, the Cronbach"s alpha values for the four dimensions of the SF-MPQ-2-CN were 0.357, 0.629, 0.517 and 0.505, respectively. For headache and orofacial pain, the Cronbach"s alpha values for the four dimensions were 0.668, 0.527, 0.542and 0.549, respectively. As for Chronic musculoskeletal pain, the Cronbach"s alpha values were respectively 0.465, 0.656, 0.494 and 0.576. Conclusion: The SF-MPQ-2-CN was more suitable for evaluating chronic visceral pain. It was suggested that specific scales should be developed for different classifications of chronic pain in ICD-11.