Assessing Global Pain Severity by Self-Report in Clinical and Health Services Research

By Michael von Korff, Mark Jensen, P. Karoly. Spine, 2000

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Interpreting Change Scores for Pain and Functional Status in Low Back Pain: Towards International Consensus Regarding Minimal Important Change (2008, methodology): “The study covered the core set recommendations and most commonly used measures: for pain, the Numerical Rating Scale (scoring range 0–10) 4 and the Visual Analogue Scale (scoring range 0–100) 4 ; and for function, the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (scoring range 0–24) 8 and the Oswestry…”
Daily Assessment of Pain in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease (2008, methodology): “We chose to conduct an epidemiologic study that minimized daily respondent burden; however, our approach to measuring daily pain is consistent with the concept of pain as multidimensional and is composed of both pain and responses to pain (49).”
Pain assessment (2005, methodology): “Whereas some studies find it to be unreliable to assess pain retrospectively [16, 47–49] others report acceptable levels of validity up to a 3-months recall period [7, 75, 45].”