Development and Validation of Acupuncture Fear Scale

Table 7

Correlation coefficients between the acupuncture fear scale and the fear of pain questionnaire (𝑁=275).

	FPQ-III total	FPQ-III severe	FPQ-III minor	FPQ-III medical
AFS total	0.423	0.279	0.346	0.498
AFS factor 1	0.413	0.265	0.311	0.519
AFS factor 2	0.326	0.223	0.294	0.349

AFS: acupuncture fear scale; all correlations were significant at 𝑃<0.001.