The Need for Linguistically and Culturally Adapted Standard Questionnaires to Assess Itch: A Preliminary Study.

The article focuses on the need of questionnaires for itching that should consider both the patient's and the doctor's perspectives as well as the need to gather important medical information. It mentions patient-doctor relationship and indispensable for clinical trials, investigations into quality of life, psychological studies and pathophysiological research. It also mentions itch is associated with pain, burning tingling, tickling, prickling, tightness or stinging.