Instrument: PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference - Short Form 8a v1.0

The PROMIS(r) Pain Interference instruments (adult and child) measure the self-reported consequences of pain on relevant aspects of a person’s life and may include the extent to which pain hinders engagement with social, cognitive, emotional, physical, and recreational activities. The Pain Interference short form is universal rather than disease-specific. The Pain Interference items utilize a 7–day recall period (items include the phrase "the past 7 days"). PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference instruments are available for adults (ages 18+), for children (ages 8-17) and parent proxy serving as proxy reporters for their child (youth ages 5-17).

A brief overview to the PROMIS Pain Interference instruments:

Pediatric:
PROMIS Pediatric Short Form v1.0 – Pain Interference 8a
Parent Proxy:
PROMIS Parent Proxy Short Form v1.0 – Pain Interference 8a
Adult:
PROMIS Adult Short Form v1.0 – Pain Interference 4a
PROMIS Adult Short Form v1.0 – Pain Interference 6a
PROMIS Adult Short Form v1.0 – Pain Interference 8a
PROMIS Adult Short Form v1.0 – Pain Interference 6b

There are 4 Pain Interference short forms for adults. Items in the 4a, 6a, and 8a short forms were selected based on rankings using two psychometric criteria: (1) maximum interval information; and (2) CAT simulations. Item rankings were similar for both criteria. In selecting between short forms, the difference is instrument length. The reliability and precision of the short forms is highly similar. The short forms can be administered individually or with short forms of similar length from other domains (Depression, Physical Function, Anxiety, Fatigue, Sleep Disturbance, etc.) as part of a PROMIS Profile (see PROMIS-29, 43 or 57 Profiles).

The PROMIS Adult Short Form v1.0 – Pain Interference 6b has been created as an independent instrument on this CDE website due to its unique question content. If you are working in an adult sample in which you expected huge variability in a domain area and wanted different subdomains covered, you should select the 6b short form.

There is one short form available for pediatric self-report and one for parent proxy report. In selecting whether to use the pediatric or parent proxy instrument, it is important to consider both the population and the domain which you are studying. Pediatric self-report should be considered the standard for measuring patient-reported outcomes among children. However, circumstances exist when the child is too young, cognitively impaired, or too ill to complete a patient-reported outcome instrument. While information derived from self-report and proxy-report is not equivalent, it is optimal to assess both the child and the parent since their perspectives may be independently related to healthcare utilization, risk factors, and quality of care.

Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures use answers that patients provide to questions to produce numeric values which indicate patients' state of wellbeing or suffering as well as their ability or lack of ability to function. The Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS(r)), funded by the National Institutes of Health, aims to provide clinicians and researchers access to efficient, precise, valid, and responsive adult- and child-reported measures for physical, mental, and social well-being. PROMIS(r) tools measure what patients are able to do and how they feel by asking questions. PROMIS measures can be used as primary or secondary endpoints in clinical studies of the effectiveness of treatment, and PROMIS tools can be used across a wide variety of chronic diseases and conditions and in the general population. When used with traditional clinical measures of health, the data collected in PROMIS provide clinicians and researchers with important patient-reported information to better understand how various treatments might affect what patients are able to do and the symptoms they experience. The PROMIS initiative is part of the NIH goal to develop systems to support NIH-funded research supported by all of its institutes and centers.

This instrument is available on the PROMIS website through the Assessment Center, which houses all PROMIS instruments for each domain. Assessment Center is a free online research management tool enabling researchers to create study-specific websites for capturing participant data securely. PROMIS instruments are a central feature of the instrument library within Assessment Center. Any PROMIS measure can be included in an online study or downloaded for administration on paper. Detailed statistical information and development history about PROMIS items and instruments are available for review at www.nihpromis.org.