CDE Detailed Report

Choose one alternative for each question. Please note that all interference items apply to overall pain during the last week, rather than to each of the different pain problems. Please note that "last week" specifically refers to the last seven days including today. This question concerns how a person's specific pain problem interfered with mood during the last seven days including today. An interference item that assesses mood interference was developed for this data set because pain is known to have a significant negative impact on mood for many patients, and pain's effect on mood is somewhat distinct from its effect on other functioning domains.

Choose one alternative for each question. Please note that all interference items apply to overall pain during the last week, rather than to each of the different pain problems. Please note that "last week" specifically refers to the last seven days including today. This question concerns how a person's specific pain problem interfered with his/her ability to get a good night's sleep during the last seven days including today. An interference item that assesses sleep interference was developed for this data set because pain is known to have a significant negative impact on sleep for many patients, and pain's effect on sleep is somewhat distinct from its effect on other functioning domains.

By "treatment" is meant any prescribed or non-prescribed medical, surgical, psychological, or physical treatment that the patient is using or receiving for pain that has been present the last seven days to alleviate his/her pain/pains. This variable may include chronic and intermittent drug treatment, physical therapy, relaxation training, nerve blocks etc.

All three classifications should be used if the person reports three or more pain problems in the last 7 days. Each person is only required to describe the three worst pain problems he or she is currently experiencing (within the last 7 days). The reasons for this are twofold. First, most people with SCI experience three or fewer pain problems. Second, describing the details of more than three different simultaneous pain problems may induce errors in the data collection. Please note that the forms should be completed in a columnar fashion for each pain problem and not be read across.

Can be more than one, so check all that apply. This division into pain areas is based on a pain drawing originally described by Margolis et al.,1988 but which was since recalculated into 8 principal areas (WiderstrÖm-Noga et al., 2001): (1) head; (2) neck/shoulders; (3) arms/hands; (4) frontal torso/genitals; (5) back; (6) buttocks/hips; (7) Upper legs/thighs; and (8) Lower legs/feet. Within each of t hese 8 pain locations, further divisions into more precise locations can be made. For example, in the "arms/hand" category specification of wrist, elbow pain etc. can be made if needed. Each individual is asked to describe the location of all present pain. Please indicate right (R), midline (M) and/or left (L) side. The descriptions of the pain locations in the Basic Pain Data Set are meant to be based on each individual's perception of the location of pain, and can be used to follow pain at subsequent visits. Therefore, the delineations of these areas are not defined with precise anatomical landmarks. Several locations may be given for each pain problem, e.g., neck and either shoulders, or pain in the abdomen extending into the buttocks and thighs areas and further down to the feet.