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Recalled pain ratings: a complex and poorly defined task.

Joan E Broderick1, Arthur A Stone, Pamela Calvanese

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8790, USA. joan.broderick@stonybrook.edu

The Journal of Pain
|February 7, 2006
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Patients struggle to recall pain intensity accurately over time, using inconsistent methods for retrospective ratings. Further research is needed to improve pain measurement accuracy and patient recall strategies.

Area of Science:

  • Pain Management
  • Psychometrics
  • Rheumatology

Background:

  • Self-report pain intensity ratings are common in clinical practice and research.
  • Patients often provide retrospective pain ratings over extended periods (days/weeks).
  • Limited understanding exists regarding how patients perform pain recall tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how patients with chronic pain understand and complete retrospective pain intensity recall tasks.
  • To explore the strategies patients use to rate past pain intensity on a visual analog scale.

Main Methods:

  • Structured interviews were conducted with 106 rheumatology patients experiencing chronic pain.
  • Patients discussed their process for providing visual analog scale ratings of pain intensity over the past week.

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Main Results:

  • Most patients could not coherently explain their rating process.
  • Significant inconsistency was observed in the strategies used by different patients.
  • Various individual strategies were identified influencing patients' pain recall responses.

Conclusions:

  • The study highlights a lack of full understanding regarding the meaning and validity of retrospective pain recall data.
  • Clearer instructions are needed, specifying pain qualities and summarization methods for recall periods.