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ArticleJournal of sickle cell disease2025

Preliminary validity of a daily functional status pain assessment tool.

Wally R Smith, Rehan Qayyum, Alexandra Ulbing, Margaret S Guy, Daniel M Sop, Yue May Zhang

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Wally R SmithDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23219-0306, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4122-5367
Rehan QayyumDepartment of Internal Medicine, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23501-1980, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3086-8014
Alexandra UlbingDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0677, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4578-0026
Margaret S GuyDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0102, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7313-6019
Daniel M SopSickle Cell Disease Program/Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2076-8319
Yue May ZhangSickle Cell Disease Program/Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9685-7444

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Abstract

Objectives: Readiness for discharge for a SCD vaso-occlusive crisis is dictated by factors far beyond pain control, including physical function/activity. We therefore designed and tested a functional status-based pain assessment questionnaire in SCD patients hospitalized with vaso-occlusive crises. Methods: Sickle cell disease patients on a preselected nursing unit rated 10 draft Functional status-Based Pain Assessment items of activities of daily living on a five-point Likert scale (0-5) from "very easy" to "very difficult" daily on each day of their admission until discharge, at approximately the same time. Concurrently, they reported Numeric Rating Scale (0-10) pain intensity. For validation, we used exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and item response theory analysis. Results and discussion: We analyzed 503 observations from 175 admissions of 88 patients. Half were female, the mean age was 32.1 ± 11.8 years, and the mean length of stay was 7.1 ± 6.9 days. The mean Numeric Rating Scale (6.8 ± 1.9) was inversely correlated with the mean Functional Status-based Pain Assessment (0-50) score (27 ± 8.0, Conclusion: The Functional Status-based Pain Assessment shows strong correlation with daily Numeric Rating Scale, is multidimensional, and demonstrates strong construct validity. It may improve assessment of SCD vaso-occlusive crisis pain and may enhance vaso-occlusive crisis discharge discussions.

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functional assessmentpainquality of lifeSCD

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PMID40123944
PMCPMC11925492

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