Imagined Examples of Painful Experiences Provided by Chronic Low Back Pain Patients and Attributed a Pain Numerical Rating Score
| العنوان: | Imagined Examples of Painful Experiences Provided by Chronic Low Back Pain Patients and Attributed a Pain Numerical Rating Score |
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| المؤلفون: | Maria Antoniak, Seth Waldman, Robert S. Griffin, Phuong Dinh Mac, Vladimir Kramskiy, David Mimno |
| المصدر: | Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 13 (2020) Frontiers in Neuroscience |
| بيانات النشر: | Frontiers Media S.A., 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, pain numerical rating scale, lcsh:RC321-571, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Qualitative analysis, Rating scale, Pain assessment, Pain level, medicine, pain assessment, 030212 general & internal medicine, lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, low back pain, Original Research, business.industry, qualitative pain, General Neuroscience, Chronic pain, medicine.disease, Rating score, Low back pain, humanities, Chronic low back pain, Physical therapy, measurement, medicine.symptom, business, chronic pain, human activities, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Neuroscience |
| الوصف: | Objective The pain numerical rating scale (NRS) is widely used in pain research and clinical settings to represent pain intensity. For an individual with chronic pain, NRS reporting requires representation of a complex subjective state as a numeral. To evaluate the process of NRS reporting, this study examined the relationship between reported pain NRS levels and imagined painful events reported by study subjects. Design A total of 149 subjects with chronic low back pain characterized by the NIH Research Task Force Recommended Minimal Dataset reported current pain NRS and provided imagined examples of painful experiences also attributing to these an NRS. We present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the 797 pain examples provided by the study subjects. Results Study subjects tended to be able to imagine both highly painful 10/10 events and non-painful events with relative agreement across subjects. While NRS for the pain examples tended to increase with example severity, for many types of examples there was wide dispersion around the mean pain level. Examination of pain examples indicated unexpected relationships between current pain and the intensity and nature of the imagined painful events. Conclusions Our results indicate that the pain NRS does not provide a reliably interpretable assessment of current physical pain intensity for an individual with chronic pain at a specific moment. |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d4bc50bf661850499e40f45d665ba65a https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2019.01331/full |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....d4bc50bf661850499e40f45d665ba65a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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