Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the PROMIS ® Pediatric Pain Intensity Measure in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Pain

Appropriate management of pediatric pain relies on accurate assessment of pain intensity. The gold standard for assessing pain intensity is by self-report: “pain is what the patient says it is, and occurs when he or she says it does”.27 A number of patient-reported pain intensity measures are widely used in pediatric populations, including visual analog scales (VAS 26), numeric rating scales (NRS 28,32), and faces pain scales (FPS-R 2,18); however the psychometric precision of these measures are limited.

Source: The Journal of Pain - June 19, 2020 Category: Materials Science Authors: Constance A. Mara, Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, Natoshia Cunningham, Kenneth R. Goldschneider, Bin Huang, Carlton Dampier, David D. Sherry, Lori Crosby, Jennifer Farrell Miller, Kimberly Barnett, Esi M. Morgan Source Type: research