2022 journal article

Refinement of the Feline Musculoskeletal Pain Index (FMPI) and development of the short-form FMPI

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 24(2), 142–151.

By: M. Enomoto n , B. Lascelles  n, J. Robertson  n & M. Gruen  n

author keywords: Osteoarthritis; pain; musculoskeletal disease; degenerative joint disease; behavioral change; outcome measure
MeSH headings : Analgesics; Animals; Cat Diseases / diagnosis; Cat Diseases / drug therapy; Cats; Musculoskeletal Pain / veterinary; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires
TL;DR: The proposed FMPI-sf may be able to better distinguish between placebo and analgesic effects in cats with DJD and its reliability was reassessed using the data sets described above. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
3. Good Health and Well-being (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: May 19, 2021

Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and responsiveness of the Feline Musculoskeletal Pain Index (FMPI) using the collective results of multiple clinical studies and iteratively refine the FMPI for future use.