ArticleThe journal of spinal cord medicine2018
Measuring pain phenomena after spinal cord injury: Development and psychometric properties of the SCI-QOL Pain Interference and Pain Behavior assessment tools.
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- Examining the factor structure of health-related quality of life in spinal cord injury using confirmatory factor analysis and multidimensional scaling.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
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- Baseline Comparison of Exercisers and Nonexercisers With Spinal Cord Injury Enrolled in a Group Tele-Exercise Program.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Moving Beyond the Neck and Arm: The Pain Experience of People With Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Who Have Pain.Global spine journal · 2022Article
- Active or passive pain coping: Which predicts daily physical and psychosocial functioning in people with chronic pain and spinal cord injury?Rehabilitation psychology · 2022Observational
- The presence of pain in community-dwelling South African manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2022Article
- The reliability of end of day and ecological momentary assessments of pain and pain interference in individuals with spinal cord injury.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo develop modern patient-reported outcome measures that assess pain interference and pain behavior after spinal cord injury (SCI).
designGrounded-theory based qualitative item development; large-scale item calibration field-testing; confirmatory factor analyses; graded response model item response theory analyses; statistical linking techniques to transform scores to the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) metric.
settingFive SCI Model Systems centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the United States.
participantsAdults with traumatic SCI.
interventionsN/A. OUTCOME MEASURES: Spinal Cord Injury - Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Pain Interference item bank, SCI-QOL Pain Interference short form, and SCI-QOL Pain Behavior scale.
resultsSeven hundred fifty-seven individuals with traumatic SCI completed 58 items addressing various aspects of pain. Items were then separated by whether they assessed pain interference or pain behavior, and poorly functioning items were removed. Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed that each set of items was unidimensional, and item response theory analyses were used to estimate slopes and thresholds for the items. Ultimately, 7 items (4 from PROMIS) comprised the Pain Behavior scale and 25 items (18 from PROMIS) comprised the Pain Interference item bank. Ten of these 25 items were selected to form the Pain Interference short form.
conclusionsThe SCI-QOL Pain Interference item bank and the SCI-QOL Pain Behavior scale demonstrated robust psychometric properties. The Pain Interference item bank is available as a computer adaptive test or short form for research and clinical applications, and scores are transformed to the PROMIS metric.
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