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Offer a person-centred assessment to people presenting with chronic pain (chronic primary pain, chronic secondary pain, or both), to identify factors contributing to the pain and how the pain affects the person’s life.
Apr 11, 2019 · The holistic assessment and management of pain is important, as pain involves the mind as well as the body, and is activated by a variety of stimuli, including biological, physical, and psychological (Boore et al, 2016).
1. Aim/Purpose of this Guideline. 1.1. It is the responsibility of every healthcare professional to assess a patient’s pain using a recognized pain scoring tool to provide effective and timely pain relief. 1.2. This version supersedes any previous versions of this document.
The Short Form 36 Bodily Pain Scale is a two-item questionnaire that measures pain intensity and interference with activities (Hawker, Mian, Kendzerska, & French, 2011). This valid and reliable measure takes less than two minutes to complete.
- Clara Scher, Emily Petti, Lauren Meador, Janet H. Van Cleave, Eva Liang, M. Carrington Reid
- 10.1016/j.pmn.2020.03.007
- 2020
- 2020/10
- Commonly Used Pain and Pain-Related Questionnaires
- Additional Questionnaires to Consider Based on Domain
- Explanation of Collections
Many measures exist to assess aspects of pain, its comorbidities, and physical function. Below is a set of brief measures that can be used to assess life domains that might be important to a person living with pain. It might be helpful for a clinician to administer this set of brief measures when a person first begins reporting pain or is new to th...
When a person living with pain has an elevated score on a brief measure, comprehensive measures can be administered at a future visit to better characterize the person’s concerns within that domain. Below is a list of comprehensive measures for a variety of domains.
PROMIS Measures
PROMIS is a set of brief questionnaires that helps evaluate and monitor an individual’s physical, mental, and social health. There are many validated PROMIS measures available, and more information about PROMIS measures can be found here(link is external). PROMISquestionnaires relevant to pain and its comorbidities are available to measure pain intensity, pain interference, pain quality, pain behaviors, physical function, self-efficacy for managing symptoms or medications, anxiety, depression...
NIH Toolbox
The NIH Toolbox(link is external)contains comprehensive 30-minute batteries to assess cognitive, emotional, sensory and motor functions. It is appropriate for use in general population, people with chronic conditions and people of all ages. Within the sensation measures battery, this toolbox assesses two pain related domains – Pain Interference and Pain Intensity. These pain measures are stand-alone measures but are included in the toolbox as part of a battery of measures meant to assess sens...
NIDA Clinical Trials Network Common Data Elements
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network (CTN) has a set of standardized, measures that make up their common data elements (CDEs). These measures make up a consensus-based set of CDEs that can be used for the screening and initial assessment of substance use disorders (SUDs) that can be use in research and general medical settings. These measures are used by all trials supported by the NIDA CTN. Though these CDEs are designed for SUD research they assess two pain-sp...
This document is a joint project of the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the British Pain Society (BPS) to provide guidance on the various available outcome measures used by pain services. This project has been supported by the national clinical reference group in pain.
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The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) and the short-form MPQ (SF-MPQ) evaluate sensory, affective–emotional, evaluative, and temporal aspects of the patient’s pain condition. The SF-MPQ consists of 11 sensory (sharp, shooting, etc.) and four affective (sickening, fearful, etc.) verbal descriptors.
