Self-reported painful joint count and assessor-reported tender joint count as instruments to assess pain in hand osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate self-reported and assessor-reported joint counts for pain and their value in measuring pain and joint activity in hand OA patients.

Methods

A total of 524 patients marked painful joints on hand diagrams. Nurses assessed tenderness upon palpation. Pain was measured with a visual analogue scale pain and the Australian/Canadian hand OA index subscale pain. Synovitis and bone marrow lesions in right hand distal/proximal interphalangeal joints on MRI served as measure of joint activity. Agreement was assessed on the patient (intraclass correlation coefficient, Bland-Altman plot) and joint level (percentage absolute agreement). Correlations with measures of pain and joint activity were analysed, and joint level associations with synovitis/bone marrow lesions

SUBMITTER: Kroon FPB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7850158 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature