vas & nprs

Measures of Adult PainVisual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Numeric Rating Scale for Pain (NRS Pain),McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ),Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS), Short Form-36 Bodily Pain Scale (SF-36 BPS),and Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP)

GILLIAN A. HAWKER, SAMRA MIAN, TETYANA KENDZERSKA, AND MELISSA FRENCH

INTRODUCTION

Our purpose is to provide an overview of available genericand rheumatology populationspecic questionnairessuitable for evaluating pain in adult rheumatology popu-lations. The content, ease of use, and measurement prop-erties of the questionnaires are presented and comparedin order to assist both clinicians and researchers selectthe questionnaire that is most appropriate for their pur-pose. The questionnaires are presented in the followingorder: generic unidimensional pain questionnaires (VisualAnalog Scale and Numeric Rating Scale), generic multi-dimensional pain questionnaires (Short-form McGill PainQuestionnaire, Chronic Pain Grade Scale, and Short Form-36 Bodily Pain Scale), and nally an arthritis-specic painquestionnaire (Measure of Intermittent and Constant Os-teoarthritis Pain). Composite measures of arthritis symp-toms, including pain and associated disability, specicallythe Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteo-arthritis Index and the Arthritis Impact MeasurementScales, are described in Measures of Knee Function andMeasures of Disability, respectively.

VISUAL ANALOG SCALE (VAS) FOR PAIN

Description

Purpose. The pain VAS is a unidimensional measure ofpain intensity (1), which has been widely used in diverseadult populations, including those with rheumatic dis-eases (25).

Content. The pain VAS is a continuous scale comprisedof a horizontal (HVAS) or vertical (VVAS) line, usually 10centimeters (100 mm) in length, anchored by 2 verbaldescriptors, one for each symptom extreme (2,6). Instruc-tions, time period for reporting, and verbal descriptor an-chors have varied widely in the literature depending onintended use of the scale (7).

Number of items. The pain VAS is a single-item scale.Response options/scale. For pain intensity, the scale is

most commonly anchored by no pain (score of 0) andpain as bad as it could be or worst imaginable pain(score of 100 [100-mm scale]) (68). To avoid clustering ofscores around a preferred numeric value, numbers or ver-bal descriptors at intermediate points are not recom-mended (4,9).

Recall period for items. Varies, but most commonlyrespondents are asked to report current pain intensity orpain intensity in the last 24 hours.

Practical Application

How to obtain. The pain VAS is available in the publicdomain at no cost (7). Graphic formats for the VAS may beobtained from Scott & Huskisson (9) or online: http://www.amda.com/tools/library/whitepapers/hospiceinltc/appendix-a.pdf.

Method of administration. The pain VAS is self-completed by the respondent. The respondent is asked toplace a line perpendicular to the VAS line at the point thatrepresents their pain intensity (2,9,10).

Scoring. Using a ruler, the score is determined by mea-suring the distance (mm) on the 10-cm line between theno pain anchor and the patients mark, providing a rangeof scores from 0100 (6).

Score interpretation. A higher score indicates greaterpain intensity. Based on the distribution of pain VASscores in postsurgical patients (knee replacement, hyster-ectomy, or laparoscopic myomectomy) who describedtheir postoperative pain intensity as none, mild, moderate,or severe, the following cut points on the pain VAS havebeen recommended: no pain (04 mm), mild pain (544

Gillian A. Hawker, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Samra Mian, MSc,Tetyana Kendzerska, MD, Melissa French, MSc: Universityof Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Address correspondence to Gillian Hawker, MD, MSc,FRCPC, Canadian Osteoarthritis Research Program, 76Grenville Street, 8th Floor, Room 815, Womens CollegeHospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1B2.E-mail: [email protected].

Submitted for publication February 2, 2011; accepted inrevised form June 20, 2011.

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mm), moderate pain (4574 mm), and severe pain (75100 mm) (11). Normative values are not available.

Respondent burden. The VAS takes 1 minute to com-plete (3,7).

Administrative burden. The VAS is administered as apaper and pencil measure. As a result, it cannot be admin-istered verbally or by phone. No training is required otherthan the ability to use a ruler to measure distance todetermine a score (7,9). Caution is required when photo-copying the scale as this may change the length of the10-cm line (6). As slightly lower scores have been reportedon the HVAS compared to the VVAS (12), the same align-ment of scale should be used consistently within the samepatient.

Translations/adaptations. Minimal translation difcul-ties have led to an unknown number of cross-culturaladaptations.

Psychometric Information

Method of development. The pain VAS originated fromcontinuous visual analog scales developed in the eld ofpsychology to measure well-being (13,14). Woodforde andMerskey (15) rst reported use of the VAS pain scale withthe descriptor extremes no pain at all and my pain is asbad as it could possibly be in patients with a variety ofconditions. Subsequently, others reported use of the scaleto measure pain in rheumatology patients receiving phar-macologic pain therapy (2,6,9). While variable anchor paindescriptors have been used, there does not appear to beany rationale for selecting one set of descriptors over an-other.

Acceptability. The pain VAS requires little training toadminister and score and has been found to be acceptableto patients (2,10). However, older patients with cognitiveimpairment may have difculty understanding and there-fore completing the scale (6,16). Supervision during com-pletion may minimize these errors (9).

Reliability. Testretest reliability has been shown to begood, but higher among literate (r 0.94, P 0.001) thanilliterate patients (r 0.71, P 0.001) before and afterattending a rheumatology outpatient clinic (8).

Validity. In the absence of a gold standard for pain,criterion validity cannot be evaluated. For construct valid-ity, in patients with a variety of rheumatic diseases, thepain VAS has been shown to be highly correlated with a5-point verbal descriptive scale (nil, mild, moder-ate, severe, and very severe) and a numeric ratingscale (with response options from no pain to unbear-able pain), with correlations ranging from 0.710.78 and0.620.91, respectively) (3). The correlation between ver-tical and horizontal orientations of the VAS is 0.99 (12).

Ability to detect change. In patients with chronic in-ammatory or degenerative joint pain, the pain VAS hasdemonstrated sensitivity to changes in pain assessedhourly for a maximum of 4 hours and weekly for up to 4weeks following analgesic therapy (P 0.001) (10). Inpatients with rheumatoid arthritis, the minimal clinicallysignicant change has been estimated as 1.1 points on an11-point scale (or 11 points on a 100-point scale) (17). Aminimum clinically important difference of 1.37 cm has

been determined for a 10-cm pain VAS in patients withrotator cuff disease evaluated after 6 weeks of nonopera-tive treatment (18).

Critical Appraisal of Overall Value to theRheumatology Community

Strengths/caveats and cautions/clinical and researchusability. The VAS is widely used due to its simplicityand adaptability to a broad range of populations and set-tings. Its acceptability as a generic pain measure was dem-onstrated in the early 1970s. Limitations to the use of thepain VAS include the following: older patients may havedifculty completing the pain VAS due to cognitive im-pairments or motor skill issues, scoring is more compli-cated than that for the Numeric Rating Scale for pain(described below), and it cannot be administered by tele-phone, limiting its usefulness in research.

NUMERIC RATING SCALE (NRS) FOR PAIN

Description

Purpose. The NRS for pain is a unidimensional measureof pain intensity in adults (1921), including those withchronic pain due to rheumatic diseases (3,8). Althoughvarious iterations exist, the most commonly used is the11-item NRS (22), which is described here.

Content. The NRS is a segmented numeric version ofthe visual analog scale (VAS) in which a respondent se-lects a whole number (010 integers) that best reects theintensity of their pain (21). The common format is a hori-zontal bar or line (23). Similar to the pain VAS, the NRSis anchored by terms describing pain severity extremes(3,20,21).

Number of items. The pain NRS is a single 11-pointnumeric scale (3).

Response options/scale. An 11-point numeric scale(NRS 11) with 0 representing one pain extreme (e.g., nopain) and 10 representing the other pain extreme (e.g.,pain as bad as you can imagine and worst pain imag-inable) (20,21).

Recall period for items. Varies, but most commonlyrespondents are asked to report pain intensity in the last24 hours or average pain intensity (24).


How to obtain. Available from the web site: http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/printouts/A7012AS2.pdf.

Method of administration. The NRS can be adminis-tered verbally (therefore also by telephone) or graphicallyfor self-completion (6). The respondent is asked to indicatethe numeric value on the segmented scale that best de-scribes their pain intensity.

Scoring. The number that the respondent indicates onthe scale to rate their pain intensity is recorded. Scoresrange from 010.

Score interpretation. Higher scores indicate greaterpain intensity.

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Respondent burden. The pain NRS takes 1 minute tocomplete.

Administrative burden. The pain NRS is easy to admin-ister and score (6,25).

Translations/adaptations. Like the pain VAS, minimallanguage translation difculties support the use of the NRSacross cultures and languages (26).


Method of development. To improve discrimination fordetecting relatively small changes, an NRS comprised ofnumbers along a scale was used in a population of 100patients with a variety of rheumatic diseases (3). Varia-tions in pain descriptors used as anchors for end points onthe pain NRS have been reported in the literature (3,6,24).However, the methodology used to develop these variousanchor terms is unknown.

Acceptability. Chronic pain patients prefer the NRSover other measures of pain intensity, including the painVAS, due to comprehensibility and ease of completion(27). However, focus groups of patients with chronic backpain and symptomatic hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA)have found that the pain NRS is inadequate in capturingthe complexity and idiosyncratic nature of the pain expe-rience or improvements due to symptom uctuations(28,29).

Reliability. High testretest reliability has been ob-served in both literate and illiterate patients with rheuma-toid arthritis (r 0.96 and 0.95, respectively) before andafter medical consultation (8).

Validity. For construct validity, the NRS was shown tobe highly correlated to the VAS in patients with rheumaticand other chronic pain conditions (pain 6 months): cor-relations range from 0.86 to 0.95 (3,8).

Ability to detect change. In clinical trials of pregabalinfor diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, chroniclow back pain, bromyalgia, and OA, analyses of the rela-tionships between changes in pain NRS scores and patientreports of overall improvement, measured using a stan-dard 7-point patient global impression of change, demon-strated a reduction of 2 points, or 30%, on the pain NRSscores to be clinically important (22). Similar results werefound in low back pain patients when changes in painNRS scores were compared to patient improvements inpain after physical therapy, using a 15-point Global Ratingof Change scale (19).


Strengths/caveats and cautions/clinical and researchusability. The pain NRS is a valid and reliable scale tomeasure pain intensity. Strengths of this measure over thepain VAS are the ability to be administered both verbally(therefore by telephone) and in writing, as well as itssimplicity of scoring. However, similar to the pain VAS,the pain NRS evaluates only 1 component of the painexperience, pain intensity, and therefore does not capturethe complexity and idiosyncratic nature of the pain expe-rience or improvements due to symptom uctuations.

MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE (MPQ)

Description

Purpose. A multidimensional pain questionnaire de-signed to measure the sensory, affective and evaluativeaspects of pain and pain intensity in adults with chronicpain, including pain due to rheumatic diseases (30,31).

Content. The scale contains 4 subscales evaluating thesensory, affective and evaluative, and miscellaneous as-pects of pain, responses to which comprise the Pain RatingIndex, and a 5-point pain intensity scale (Present PainIntensity).

Number of items. The Pain Rating Index contains 78pain descriptor items categorized into 20 subclasses, eachcontaining 26 words that fall into 4 major subscales:sensory (subclasses 110), affective (subclasses 1115),evaluative (subclass 16), and miscellaneous (subclasses1720). There is also a 1-item pain intensity scale (30).

Response options/scale. The value (score) associatedwith each descriptor is based on its position or rank orderwithin the word set. The Present Pain Intensity scale, ameasure of the magnitude of pain experienced by an indi-vidual, is a numeric-verbal combination that indicatesoverall pain intensity (31) and includes 6 levels: none (0),mild (1), discomforting (2), distressing (3), horrible (4), andexcruciating (5) (32).

Recall period for items. Present pain (31).Examples of use. The MPQ can be used to evaluate the

efcacy and effectiveness of pain interventions and toidentify qualities of pain associated with distinct nocio-ceptive disorders and neuropathic pain disorders, includ-ing arthritis (30).


How to obtain. The MPQ is available at no cost fromthe developer, Ronald Melzack, PhD, Department of Psy-chology, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Peneld Avenue,Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada, and online (http://www.qolid.org) by paying a membership fee.

Method of administration. The MPQ is interviewer-administrated using paper and pencil. The interviewermust read instructions to the respondent and dene anywords that the respondent does not understand. For eachsubclass of words, the respondent is instructed to select1 word that ts their present pain. If none of the wordsdescribe their pain, then no word is selected (30,33).

Scoring. The MPQ is scored by hand by rst countingthe number of words selected to obtain a Number of WordsChosen score (020 words). Pain Rating Index scores rangefrom 078 based on the rank values of the chosen words.The value (score) associated with each descriptor is basedon its position or rank order in the word set, such that therst word is given a value of 1, the next a value of 2 and soon. Rank values are summed within each subclass as wellas overall. Scores on the Present Pain Intensity scale rangefrom 05 (31).

Score interpretation. A higher score on the MPQ indi-cates worse pain. The Pain Rating Index is interpreted bothin terms of quantity of pain, as evidenced by the number of

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words used and the rank values of the words, as well as thequality of pain, as evidenced by the particular words thatare chosen. The normative mean scores across painful con-ditions ranged from 2450% of the maximum score (7).

Respondent burden. Completion of the MPQ can takeup to 20 minutes (33).

Administrative burden. No training is required to scoreand interpret the MPQ, other than the ability of the inter-viewer to dene each word (30,33). Time to score is 25minutes.

Translations/adaptations. There are a total of 44 differ-ent versions of the MPQ, representing 26 different languag-es/cultures (34). The MPQ has been translated into Eng-lish, French (35), German (3638), Norwegian (39), Danish(40), Italian (41), Japanese (42), Finnish (43), Spanish (44),Chinese (45), Dutch (46), Amharic (47), Slovak (48), Turk-ish (49), and Portuguese (5052).


Method of development. Pain descriptors were derivedfrom recording the words used by chronic pain patients todescribe their pain; these descriptors were then catego-rized into subclasses and rank ordered by intensity usinga numerical scale by groups of physicians, patients, andstudents (31,53).

Acceptability. Some respondents have difculty withthe complexity of the vocabulary used, resulting in failureto read the instructions carefully and to see essential fea-tures (54).

Reliability. In a study of general rheumatology clinicpatients, testretest reliability for the 3 MPQ pain items(nagging, aching, and stabbing) ranged from a highof 0.81 for 1-day recall to a low of 0.59 for 7-day recall (55).These ndings are consistent with those of other studiesevaluating testretest reliability in populations with a va-riety of other conditions including arthritis and other mus-culoskeletal conditions (r 0.70) (31,56,57).

Validity. Content validity. Arthritis patients, regardlessof their disease severity, used similar words to describe thesensory aspects of their pain. MPQ words have been shownto differentiate between 4 different circumstances of rheu-matoid arthritis (RA) pain (i.e., overall pain at rest, overallpain on movement, joint pain at rest, and joint pain onmovement) (58). The MPQ has the ability to detect mildpain due to the multidimensional nature of the scale andthe large number of pain descriptor options (59).

Construct validity. In RA, the number of sensory andaffective MPQ words selected has been positively corre-lated with visual analog scale (VAS) scores of severity ofpain at rest and on movement (r 0.27, P 0.01 and r 0.17, P 0.05, respectively) (58). Higher Pain Rating Indexscores are associated with negative affect (e.g., MinnesotaMultiphasic Personality Inventory, Pain CatastrophizingScale) (60). In knee pain or knee osteoarthritis patients,higher MPQ scores were associated with greater anxietyand depression (r 0.30, P 0.05 and r 0.31, P 0.05,respectively) (60), and greater symptoms and disabilityusing theWestern Ontario andMcMaster Universities painscale (r 0.340.38) (61).

Ability to detect change. In clinical trials designed toevaluate the efcacy of different pain therapies on post-operative pain after general surgical and orthopedic pro-cedures, the relative effect sizes for the MPQ-Pain RatingIndex compared with a 4-point categorical verbal ratingscale and a pain VAS were 1.08 (moderate) and 1.12(good), respectively (62).


Strengths/caveats and cautions/clinical and researchusability. The MPQ is a valid and reliable tool that eval-uates both the quality and quantity of pain through useof unique pain descriptors. This may be useful in epide-miologic studies and clinical trials of older patients withmultimorbidity, in whom pain may arise from multiplecauses. Specically, use of the MPQ may help to identifyneuropathic type pain from nocioceptive type pain. Alimitation of the MPQ is the rich vocabulary required ofrespondents for completion. Further, sex and ethnic dif-ferences may affect selection of pain descriptors. However,the interviewer can facilitate MPQ completion by provid-ing respondents with clear denitions of words duringadministration.

SHORT-FORM MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE(SF-MPQ)

Description

Purpose. The SF-MPQ, a shorter version of the MPQ, isa multidimensional measure of perceived pain in adultswith chronic pain, including pain due to rheumatic dis-eases (30,33).

Content. The SF-MPQ is comprised of 15 words (11sensory and 4 affective) from the original MPQ (33).

Number of items. The Pain Rating Index is comprised of2 subscales: 1) sensory subscale with 11 words or itemsand 2) affective subscale with 4 words or items, which arerated on an intensity scale as 0 none, 1 mild, 2 moderate, or 3 severe. The SF-MPQ also includes 1 itemfor present pain intensity and 1 item for a 10-cm visualanalog scale (VAS) for average pain (33).

Recall period for items. Present time.Examples of use. To discriminate among different pain

syndromes (33,63,64) and evaluate the responsiveness ofdifferent symptoms to treatment (65,66).


How to obtain. See this section for the MPQ above.Method of administration. See this section for the MPQ

above.Scoring. For the Pain Rating Index, each selected word

is scored from 0 (none) to 3 (severe). The total Pain RatingIndex score is obtained by summing the item scores (range045). Scores on the Present Pain Intensity range from 05and on the VAS from 010.


Score interpretation. There are no established criticalcut points. As for the MPQ, a higher score indicates worsepain.

Respondent burden. The SF-MPQ takes 25 minutesto complete (33).

Administrative burden. No training is required to scoreand interpret the SF-MPQ other than the ability of theinterviewer to dene each word (33). Time to score is1 minute.

Translations/adaptations. The SF-MPQ has been trans-lated into the following languages: English, French, Am-haric (47), Chinese (67), Czech (68), Danish (69), Farsi (70),Greek (71,72), Hebrew (73), Hindi (74), Korean (75,76),Norwegian (77), Swedish (78), Thai (79), and Turkish(49,80).


Method of development. In addition to indices of over-all pain intensity (the Present Pain Intensity [31] and VAS[81]), a selection of pain descriptors representing sensoryand affective categories were retained from the originalversion of the MPQ (31). Other than for one descriptor(splitting), those selected for inclusion in the SF-MPQwere those chosen by greater than one-third of patientswith various types of pain (31,8284).

Acceptability. Standardized instructions for patientcompletion have not been published. Some difcultieswith completion have been reported and attributed to un-familiar descriptors and unclear written instructions.However, experience in completing the SF-MPQ and ver-bal instructions improved completion among osteoarthri-tis (OA) patients (85).

Reliability. For internal consistency, using the SF-MPQin rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and bromyalgia patients,Cronbachs alphas were estimated at 0.730.89 (78).In the same study (78), testretest reliability ranged from0.450.73 for 1-month and 3-month intervals. Amongrheumatology patients, testretest reliability was 0.790.93 at intervals of 1 to 3 days (86). In an OA population,high intraclass correlations were demonstrated for thetotal, sensory, affective, and average pain scores (5-dayperiod): 0.96, 0.95, 0.88, and 0.89, respectively (85).

Validity. The SF-MPQ was found to have more contentvalidity among patients with bromyalgia than for thosewith RA. Percentage of use of 15 pain descriptors by 2groups was signicantly different for all words exceptthrobbing and punishing-cruel. The mean intensityscore for each word ranged from 1.69 for sickening to2.60 for tender in the bromyalgia group and 1.57 forfearful to 2.18 for aching in the RA group (78). Forconstruct validity, the SF-MPQ was found to be moder-ately correlated with both the Western and Ontario andMcMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index and the ShortForm 36 Health Survey bodily pain scales (r 0.36 and0.36, respectively; P 0.01) in 200 patients with hip andknee OA (61).

Ability to detect change. Although designed for descrip-tive purposes, the SF-MPQ has been found to be sensitiveto the effects of pain therapies in a variety of populationsettings (8688). In patients with a range of musculoskel-

etal conditions reporting improvements in pain after reha-bilitation and surgical interventions, the Norwegian SF(NSF)-MPQ scores were found to be responsive to change(standardized response mean values 0.80): a mean im-provement in NSF-MPQ total scores 5 on the 045 scaledemonstrated a clinically important change (86). In an OApopulation, the minimum detectable change for total, sen-sory, affective, average, and current pain components havebeen estimated as 5.2, 4.5, 2.8, 1.4, and 1.4 cm, respec-tively (85).


Strengths/caveats and cautions/clinical and researchusability. The SF-MPQ is easier to use and takes lesstime to administer and complete than the longer form. Theword choices are not as complex, and the intensity rank-ing of mild, moderate, and severe is better understood bypatients (33). However, sufcient experience is requiredto adequately complete the SF-MPQ; therefore, new usersrequire supervision during completion (85). In 2009, theshort form was further revised for use in neuropathicand nonneuropathic pain conditions (SF-MPQ-2). TheSF-MPQ-2 includes 7 additional symptoms relevant toneuropathic pain, for a total of 22 items with 010 numer-ical response options (89). We await further psychometrictesting of this revised measure, which may play a usefulrole in the future with respect to identifying rheumaticdisease patients with neuropathic versus nociceptive painpatterns.

CHRONIC PAIN GRADE SCALE (CPGS)

Description

Purpose. The CPGS is a multidimensional measure thatassesses 2 dimensions of overall chronic pain severity:pain intensity and pain-related disability. It is suitable foruse in all chronic pain conditions, including chronic mus-culoskeletal (MSK) and low back pain (90).

Content. Subscale scores for pain intensity and dis-ability are combined to calculate a chronic pain gradethat enables classication of chronic pain patients into5 hierarchical categories: grades 0 (no pain) to IV (highdisability-severely limiting) (90).

Number of items. The CPGS is comprised of 7 items.Response options/scale. All items are scored on an 11-

point Likert scale, with responses ranging from 010.Recall period for items. Pain in the past 36 months.Examples of use. The CPGS has been used in epidemi-

ologic studies and clinical trials to evaluate and comparepain severity across groups and in response to treatmenteffects, and in clinical practice to improve the prognosticjudgments of physicians (9193).


How to obtain. Please note that the scale is availablein the original reference (90), as well as directly from theauthor.

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Method of administration. The CPGS is an interview-administered questionnaire that can also be self-completed by respondents.

Scoring. Scores are calculated for 3 subscales: the char-acteristic pain intensity score, which ranges from 0100,is calculated as the mean intensity ratings for reportedcurrent, worst, and average pain; the disability score,which ranges from 0100, is calculated as the mean ratingfor difculty performing daily, social, and work activities;and the disability points score, which ranges from 03, isderived from a combination of ranked categories of num-ber of disability days and disability score.

Score interpretation. The 3 subscale scores (character-istic pain intensity, disability score, and the disabilitypoints score) are used to classify subjects into 1 of the 5pain severity grades: grade 0 for no pain, grade I for lowdisability-low intensity, grade II for low disability-highintensity, grade III for high disability-moderately limiting,and grade IV for high disability-severely limiting.

Respondent burden. Time to complete the CPGS doesnot exceed 10 minutes.

Administrative burden. The CPGS is easy to adminis-ter. Scoring is complex.

Translations/adaptations. The CPGS has been adaptedinto UK English (94). An Italian version has been devel-oped to evaluate severity in chronic pain patients (95).


Method of development. Interviews were conductedwith primary care patients with back pain, headache,and temporomandibular disorder (96). The developmentof the graded classication drew on concepts by Turk andRudy of chronic pain severity (97,98). Two of the itemsused in the disability score were adapted from their Multi-dimensional Pain Inventory (99). The Guttman scalingmethod was used to develop the graded classication ofchronic pain (90).

Acceptability. The CPGS is easy to understand andcomplete based on a high response rate (76.3%) to a postalsurvey sent to general practice patients in the UK (94).Among MSK chronic pain patients, missing values wereonly noted in 3% of each of the questions in an Italianversion of the CPGS (100).

Reliability. For internal consistency, Cronbachs alphawas shown to be 0.74 among patients with chronicback pain (90). In an Italian version of CPGS, Cronbachsalpha ranged from 0.810.89 for subscales and globalscores in patients with chronic MSK pain (95). In UKgeneral practice patients with low back pain, testretestreliability was high after a 2-week interval (weighted 0.81 [95% condence interval 0.650.98]) (101).

Validity. For construct validity, cross-sectional and lon-gitudinal studies of general practice patients have shownthat higher scores on the CPGS, indicating greater chronicpain, are signicantly associated with higher rates of un-employment, greater pain impact scale scores, greater useof opioid analgesics and physician visits, depressed mood,and lower self-rated health status (90,94,102). Compari-sons of CPGS scores with the Short Form 36 Health Survey

(SF-36) indicate that a higher chronic pain grade using theCPGS is associated with poorer physical, psychological,social, and general health as measured by the SF-36 (P 0.001) (102) and worse scores on the SF-36 bodily painscale ( 0.545, P 0.0001) (95). Spearmans correla-tion coefcients for the CPGS scores and the various di-mensions of SF-36 were highest for the pain dimension(r 0.71 to 0.84) and lowest for the mental healthdimension (r 0.28 to 0.38) (94).

Ability to detect change. Among patients with moderateto severe chronic MSK pain, the CPGS has been shown tobe modestly responsive to changes after 12 months oftreatment with an efcacious pain intervention, with stan-dardized effect sizes for the intensity and disability sub-scales of 0.41 and 0.43, respectively. Among participantswith chronic knee or hip pain, the standardized effect sizefor the CPGS intensity was 0.32 (91).


Strengths/caveats and cautions/clinical and researchusability. The CPGS is a valid and reliable tool that isuseful for the evaluation of chronic MSK pain; it allowsfor grading of the global severity of chronic pain and there-fore analysis of the qualitative changes in chronic painover time. Further, the CPGS assesses not only aspects ofthe pain itself, but also the impact of the pain on daily,social, and work activities, which is a signicant advan-tage over many other pain questionnaires. A limitation ofthe CPGS relative to the other scales reported here is thecomplexity of scoring, which renders it less useful forassessment of pain at point of care. Additionally, furtherresearch is needed to be able to compare scoring methodsand cut points.

SHORT FORM 36 BODILY PAIN SCALE(SF-36 BPS)

Description

Purpose. The SF-36 BPS is 1 of 8 subscales of the Med-ical Outcomes Study SF-36 questionnaire (103,104), ageneric measure of health status designed for use in pop-ulation surveys (105). In 1996, version 2.0 of the SF-36(SF-36v2) was introduced to correct deciencies identiedin the original version, SF-36v1 (106). The 2-item SF-36BPS subscale assesses bodily pain as a dimension of healthstatus (104,105).

Content. The SF-36 BPS assesses bodily pain intensityand interference of pain with normal activities.

Number of items. The SF-36 BPS is a 2-item scale.Response options/scale. Intensity of bodily pain is eval-

uated using a 6-point rating scale of none to very se-vere. The extent to which pain has interfered with workis evaluated on a 5-point rating scale from not at all toextremely.

Recall period for items. The SF-36 BPS is available inboth standard (4 week) and acute (1 week) recall versions(105,106).


Examples of use. The SF-36 and its subscales, includingthe BPS, have been used in epidemiologic studies to com-pare health status across populations and within popula-tion subgroups, such as in estimating the relative burdenof different diseases, including rheumatic diseases (107),and differentiating the health benets of different treat-ments (108).


How to obtain. The SF-36 and its various versions havebeen developed by the Rand Corporation and John E. Ware(SF-36 Health Survey, The Health Institute, New EnglandMedical Center Hospitals, Box 345, 750 Washington Street,Boston, MA, 02111). The Medical Outcomes Trust, HealthAssessment Lab, and Quality Metric Incorporated are co-copyright holders of all SF-36 and SF-12 surveys. AllSF-36 survey instruments, scoring manuals, and licensesfor use are available from QualityMetric at www.qualitymetric.com. Different charges are levied for academic andcommercial use.

Method of administration. The SF-36 BPS is suitablefor self-administration, computerized administration, oradministration by a trained interviewer in person or bytelephone. Telephone voice recognition interactive sys-tems and online administrations are currently beingevaluated.

Scoring. Responses for each of the 2 SF-36 BPS itemsare recoded into nal item values (109). The raw scalescore is computed as a simple algebraic sum of the recodeditem values. The raw scale score is then transformed to a0100 scale. Norm-based scores may be calculated forSF-36v2 by including population normative data in thescoring algorithms. The BPS score is only calculated ifboth items are completed.

Score interpretation. SF-36v1 BPS scores range from0100. A higher score indicates lack of bodily pain.SF-36v2 uses norm-based scoring, where 50 is the aver-age for the population. Therefore, scores above or be-low 50 can be considered above or below, respectively,the population average health status for bodily pain, andscores can be interpreted based on deviance from the mean(10 points 1 SD). Population normative data are avail-able for the US and UK.

Respondent burden. The BPS takes 2 minutes to com-plete.

Administrative burden. Training to administer, score,and interpret is minimal. Administration guidelines arespecic and clearly outlined.

Translations/adaptations. SF-36 has been translatedand adapted for use in more than 50 countries as part ofthe International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Proj-ect. Currently, published forms include the German (110),Spanish (111), Swedish (112), and Italian (113) transla-tions and English-language adaptations for use in Austra-lia/New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. Information abouttranslations is available from the IQOLA Program of theHealth Assessment Lab in Boston, Massachusetts (http://www.iqola.org).


Method of development. The Medical Outcomes Studyresearchers selected and adapted questionnaire items frominstruments in use since the 1970s and 1980s (114117) todevelop a new 149-item Functioning and Well-Being Pro-le. Items were subsequently reduced and improvementswere made in item wording, format, and scoring to pro-duce the SF-36. One item on pain intensity was retainedfrom an earlier version of the SF-20 question regardingbodily pain or discomfort. In order to improve predictionof best total scores for the Behavioural Effects of Pain Scalein the Medical Outcomes Study (114), a second item wasadded to measure the extent to which pain interferes inactivities (105).

Acceptability. Generally easy to administer and com-plete (103,118).

Reliability. For internal consistency, Cronbachs forthe SF-36 BPS administered in hip (118) and knee (119)osteoarthritis (OA) patients was 0.72 and 0.77, respec-tively; using a Chinese version of the SF-36 BPS in rheu-matoid arthritis (RA) patients, Cronbachs was 0.91(120). In adults with persistent back, hip, or knee painrecruited from primary care, Cronbachs was 0.59 (100).Among patients from 2 general practices in the UK, thetestretest reliability over a 2-week period was 0.78 (121).Over a 14-day interval, testretest reliability of a ChineseSF-36 version used in Chinese-speaking RA patients was0.82 (120).

Validity. Regarding face and content validity, itemswere derived from pre-existing questionnaires used inlarge population studies. However, both oor and ceilingeffects have been reported (118). Regarding construct va-lidity, the proportions reporting no pain on the WesternOntario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index(WOMAC) and the SF-36 BPS were 32.2% and 13.6%,respectively, and pain scores were modestly correlated(0.55) (122) among patients who had undergone jointreplacement surgery. In the same study, the WOMAC bet-ter discriminated subjects with varying severity of kneeproblems, whereas the SF-36 BPS better discriminatedsubjects with varying levels of self-reported health statusand comorbidity. In patients with hip and knee OA, cor-relations between the WOMAC pain scale and the SF-36BPS are in the range of 0.60.7 (61,121,123). In Chinese-speaking patients with RA, moderate correlations werereported between the Chinese SF-36 BPS and physicianglobal assessment of disease activity (r 0.34), physi-cians assessment of global disease activity (r 0.35),and patient pain assessment based on a pain visual analogscale (r 0.48) (120).

Ability to detect change. Although the SF-BPS is de-signed to measure the health status of populations, it hasbeen shown to be responsive to improvements in pain.Among patients undergoing knee replacement surgery,the estimated minimum clinically important difference(MCID) ranged from 16.86/100 (SD 31.83) at 6 months to6.69/100 (SD 29.20) at 2 years (119). In a similar study onhip replacement, the estimated MCID ranged from 14.67/100 (SD 26.46) to 18.34/100 (SD 27.06) at 6 months and 2years, respectively (118). The minimal detectable change

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for the SF-36 BPS ranged from 37.91/100 (knee OA) to38.09/100 (hip OA) at 6 months (118,119).


Strengths/caveats and cautions/clinical and researchusability. The SF-36 BPS is a valid and reliable genericquestionnaire designed to evaluate bodily pain as a dimen-sion of overall health status and has been widely usedinternationally and in diverse populations. Its advantagesinclude simplicity of administration and usefulness inmaking comparisons across populations for research pur-poses. At point of patient care, a disease-specic painmeasure may be more useful to discriminate levels of painseverity, and therefore response to treatment.

MEASURE OF INTERMITTENT ANDCONSTANT OSTEOARTHRITIS PAIN (ICOAP)

Description

Purpose. The ICOAP measure is a multidimensionalosteoarthritis (OA)-specic measure designed to compre-hensively evaluate the pain experience in people with hipor knee OA, including pain intensity, frequency, and im-pact on mood, sleep, and quality of life, independent ofthe effect of pain on physical function (28). It is intendedfor use alongside a measure of physical disability.

Content. The ICOAP is an 11-item scale evaluating 2pain domains: a 5-item scale evaluates constant pain anda 6-item scale evaluates intermittent pain or pain thatcomes and goes (28). Two supplementary questions canbe used to assess predictability of intermittent pain whenpresent (124). Both a hip and knee joint version of theICOAP are available (28).

Number of items: 11 items in 2 domains with 2 supple-mentary items on intermittent pain predictability.

Response options/scale. All items are constructed asrating scales with 5 levels of response. For items askingabout intensity, response options are not at all, mildly,moderately, severely, and extremely. For itemsabout frequency, response options are never, rarely,sometimes, often, and very often (28). For the sup-plementary items asking about predictability of pain, theresponse options are never, rarely, sometimes,often, and very often (124).

Recall period for items. Past week.Endorsements. Osteoarthritis Research Society Inter-

national (OARSI)/Outcome Measures in Rheumatology(OMERACT) Initiative.


How to obtain. The ICOAP and ICOAP Users Guidecan be obtained free of charge from the OARSI web site,www.oarsi.org.

Method of administration. The measure can be inter-viewer-administered in person or by telephone (28). Re-spondents should complete both subscales (63).

Scoring. Each ICOAP item is scored from 04. A scoreis separately produced for each subscale by summing theitems subscale scores and then normalizing each scorefrom 0 (no pain) to 100 (extreme pain). A total ICOAP scorecan be calculated by summing the 2 subscale scores, andnormalizing from 0 (no pain) to 100 (extreme pain). Ruleshave been created to deal with missing data (63). No scor-ing guidelines are available for the 2 supplementary items.

Score interpretation. Higher scores indicate a worsepain experience.

Respondent burden. The ICOAP takes 10 minutes tocomplete.

Administrative burden. Easy to administer and score.Translations/adaptations. To date, the ICOAP has been

translated into the following languages: English (NorthAmerica and UK), Czech, Dutch, French (France), Ger-man (125), Italian, Norwegian, Spanish (Castillan), Northand Central American Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese (50),Greek, Romanian, and Russian (126). Translated versionsare available at www.oarsi.org.


Method of development. Focus groups were conductedin individuals with painful hip or knee OA in 4 countries(US, UK, Canada, and Australia) to generate items pertain-ing to the OA pain experience (28,127). Content analysis ofresulting transcripts was used to identify themes, whichwere veried with participants. Subsequent psychometrictesting was conducted in subjects age 40 years with hipor knee OA drawn from rheumatologists practices, jointreplacement wait lists, and from among the members of anexisting OA cohort (28).

Acceptability. The ICOAP has been shown to be easy tounderstand and complete; subjects felt positive about theinclusion of the 2 distinct pain domains (constant painand pain that comes and goes) (126).

Reliability. Regarding content validity, Cronbachs was 0.93 (28) for 100 individuals with hip and knee OA.Testretest reliability in 76 individuals with hip and kneeOA, age 40 years, demonstrated an intraclass correlationcoefcient of 0.85 (95% condence interval 0.760.91)(122).

Validity. Content and face validity were determinedthrough focus groups used to develop the ICOAP. Forconstruct validity, descriptive analyses of items demon-strated good distribution of response options across allitems (28). Total and subscale ICOAP scores are signi-cantly correlated with scores on the Western Ontario andMcMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC)pain scale, the Knee Injury and OA Outcome Score(KOOS) symptoms scale, and self-rated effect of hip/kneeproblems on quality of life, with Spearmans correlationcoefcients ranging in magnitude from 0.60 (KOOS symp-toms) to 0.81 (WOMAC pain scale) (28).

Ability to detect change. The ICOAP has been found tobe responsive to changes in OA pain in response to phar-macologic interventions (128) and joint replacement sur-gery (129). For the knee, standard response means (SRMs)ranged from 0.490.57 for the ICOAP intermittent, con-stant, and total scores comparable to that for the WOMAC


pain (SRM 0.54). For the hip, SRMs ranged from 0.110.19, again comparable to that for the WOMAC (SRM 0.15)(128). The ICOAP detected large improvements in painresulting from joint replacement surgery with SRMs (0.841.02 for knee replacement and 1.502.29 for hip replace-ment) (129).


Strengths/caveats and cautions/clinical and researchusability. The ICOAP is a valid and reliable measure thatis unique in that it is intended to evaluate the multi-dimensional pain experience in OA, distinct from theimpact of pain on physical functioning. Prior experiencewith the WOMAC, the most commonly used OA measure,has shown high correlations between the pain and physi-cal function subscales. As a result, evaluation of OA painusing the WOMAC is confounded by physical disability.The ICOAP is intended for use together with a measureof OA disability. Although the ICOAP has been trans-lated from English into a number of languages, only afew have been evaluated for validity, reliability, andresponsiveness.

DISCUSSION

There are multiple measures available to assess pain inadult rheumatology populations. Each measure has itsown strengths and weaknesses. Both the Visual AnalogScale for Pain and the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for Painare unidimensional single-item scales that provide an es-timate of patients pain intensity. They are easy to admin-ister, complete, and score. Of the 2, the pain NRS may bepreferred at point of patient care due to simpler scoring. Inresearch, the pain NRS may similarly be preferred due toits ability to be administered both verbally and in writing.However, neither measure provides a comprehensive eval-uation of pain in patients with rheumatic disease. To eval-uate the multiple dimensions of acute and chronic pain, anumber of valid and reliable questionnaires are available.The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) is a generic painmeasure useful largely for research purposes to describenot only the quantity (intensity), but also the quality of thepatients pain. The Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS) issimilarly a generic pain measure useful for research pur-poses to describe, evaluate and compare chronic pain se-verity (its intensity and impact) across groups and in re-sponse to treatment effects. The third genericmultidimensional pain measure, the Short Form-36 BodilyPain Scale (SF-36 BPS), is useful in evaluating pain in thecontext of overall health status, and therefore most suit-able for use in making comparisons across populationsand between subgroups within populations. Unlike theMPQ and CPGS, the SF-36 BPS is simple enough for use atpoint of care. Finally, the Measure of Intermittent andConstant Osteoarthritis Pain is an osteoarthritis-specicpain measure that is recommended for descriptive andevaluative purposes in both clinical practice and researchto provide a comprehensive evaluation of the pain expe-rience in osteoarthritis, including the impact of pain on

mood, sleep and quality of life, separate and distinct fromthe impact of pain on functioning. Due to the variability inpurpose, content, method of administration, respondentand administrative burden, and evidence to support thepsychometric properties of each measure, no one painmeasure can be recommended for use in all situations. Weencourage clinicians and researchers to use this informa-tion presented in this chapter to help guide the selection ofthe questionnaire that is most appropriate for their specicpurpose.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

All authors were involved in drafting the article or revising itcritically for important intellectual content, and all authors ap-proved the nal version to be published.

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chronic

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andreliab

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mea

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painintensity

and

paininterferen

cewith

normal

activities.

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1of

the8SF-36su

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ministered,

computer-

administered,

orinterviewer-

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score.

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scores

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lack

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dilypain

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ellent;Intern

alco

nsisten

cy:C

ronba

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hip

andkn

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ective

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6mon

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andreliab

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neric

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and

thusresp

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predictability

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present

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administered

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den

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complete

both

subs

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scores

indicate

worse

pain

experience

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ellent;Intern

alco

nsisten

cy:C

ronba

chs

was

0.93

inhip

and

knee

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retest

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highin

hip

andkn

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subjec

ts(ICC

0.85

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d;C

onstru

ctva

lidity:

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rman

sco

rrelation

coefcien

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