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Area of Science:

  • Pain Management
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • Clinical Decision Making

Background:

  • Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for pain intensity improves documentation but not clinical outcomes.
  • NRS may fail to predict patient preferences for additional treatments.
  • Chronic pain management requires better tools to align treatment with patient desires.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the predictive power of illness perceptions versus NRS pain intensity for patient treatment preferences.
  • To investigate if
  • pain impact
  • is a stronger predictor of treatment choice than NRS scores.

Main Methods:

  • Single face-to-face interviews with 249 outpatients suffering from chronic, non-cancer, musculoskeletal pain.
  • Illness perception measured using 18 items, with factor analysis identifying
  • pain impact
  • as a key factor.
  • Generalized linear models assessed predictors of preference for high-risk/high-efficacy treatments.

Main Results:

  • Neither NRS pain intensity nor physical functioning predicted patient treatment preferences.
  • Pain impact significantly predicted preference for riskier/more effective treatments (p=0.04) after adjusting for covariates.
  • This suggests illness perception is more influential than pain intensity scores.

Conclusions:

  • Illness perception measures, particularly
  • pain impact
  • , may be more valuable than NRS for screening treatment preferences.
  • Further research is needed to confirm if measuring pain impact improves clinical management.
  • This could lead to more personalized and effective pain treatment strategies.