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Quantifying Pain Location and Intensity with Multimodal Pain Body Diagrams

Quantifying Pain Location and Intensity with Multimodal Pain Body Diagrams

Published on: July 7, 2023

Pain assessment using the NIH Toolbox.

Karon F Cook¹, Winnie Dunn, James W Griffith

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. karon.cook@northwestern.edu

|March 13, 2013

Summary

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The NIH Toolbox now includes core measures for adult pain intensity and interference, utilizing numerical rating scales and PROMIS short forms. Supplemental pediatric measures are also available for pain assessment.

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Area of Science:

Health Measurement
Pain Research
Psychometrics

Background:

Chronic pain significantly impacts health and daily function.
Accurate pain measurement is crucial for effective health assessment and intervention.
The NIH Toolbox aims to provide standardized health outcome measures.

Purpose of the Study:

To review considerations for pain measurement within the NIH Toolbox.
To describe the pain measurement tools selected for the NIH Toolbox assessment battery.

Main Methods:

Expert consensus and review of existing pain measurement instruments.
Selection based on scholarly input from diverse pain research experts.
Evaluation of verbal, numerical, and graphical rating scales.

Main Results:

Core NIH Toolbox measures include a 0-10 numerical rating scale for pain intensity and a 6-item PROMIS short form for pain interference in adults.
An 8-item PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference measure is recommended as a supplemental tool.
No specific measure was recommended for pediatric pain intensity measurement in this review.

Conclusions:

Core and supplemental pain measurement tools were recommended for the NIH Toolbox.
Additional measures were identified for researchers assessing pediatric pain intensity.
The NIH Toolbox provides valuable instruments for standardized pain assessment.