Defining chronic pain impact levels: a patient-clinician approach using PROMIS® pain interference scores.

ABSTRACT: Our study aims to establish PROMIS Pain Interference score (PI) ranges that clinicians and persons living with chronic pain (PLwCP) associate with none, mild, moderate, and high impact chronic pain. We employed the PRO-Bookmarking technique to identify threshold scores that delineate different levels of chronic pain impact. PROMIS-PI score vignettes or "score stories" were developed to communicate the experience of living with different levels of pain interference. A panel of 10 PLwCP and another of 5 pain clinicians identified pairs of score vignettes they judged to represent the threshold between two levels of pain impact (e.g., ''moderate impact" and ''high impact"). We defined threshold scores as the mean score of the adjacent vignettes. We applied the obtained threshold scores to the

SUBMITTER: Cook KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12361012 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature