BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Recent rise in fraudulent disability claims in the United States has
resulted in psychologists being increasingly called upon to use psychological tests to determine
whether disability claims based on psychological or somatic/pain complaints are legitimate.
PURPOSE: To examine two brief measures, Modified Somatic Perception Questionnaire (MSPQ)
and the Pain Disability Index (PDI), and their ability to screen for malingering in relation to the Bianchini
et al. criteria for malingered pain-related disability published in The Spine Journal (2005).
STUDY DESIGN: Examined brief self-report measures between litigating and nonlitigating pain
samples.