Assessing values – Psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Valuing Questionnaire in adults with chronic pain

The ability to engage in valued activities in the presence of pain and distress is critical to maintain or improve functioning and quality of life. Therefore, treatments based on contextual behavioral science, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), target values as a central change process and psychometrically adequate measures of the construct are needed. The Valuing Questionnaire (VQ) is a recent, generic and clinically relevant self-report questionnaire to assess values. There is yet a scarcity of psychometric evaluations, only one study has been conducted with chronic pain patients and the instrument is not yet available in Swedish.