How Well Do Seven Self-Report Measures Represent Underlying Back Pain Impact?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The extent to which different measures of back pain impact represent an underlying common factor has implications for decisions about which one to use in studies of pain management and estimating one score from others.

Aims

To determine if different self-report back pain impact measures represent an underlying pain latent variable and estimate associations with it.

Method

Seven pain impact measures completed by Amazon Mechanical Turk adults are used to estimate internal consistency reliability and associations: Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ), short form of the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (OMPQ), Subgroups for Targeted Treatment (STarT) Back Tool, the Graded Chronic Pain Scale (GCPS) disability sc

SUBMITTER: Hays RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11179557 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature