• Pain · Apr 2022

    Diagnostic accuracy of the PEG scale, a three-item questionnaire for grading the impact of orofacial pain-related dysfunction.

    • Carolina Roldán-Majewski, Elias Broedel, Michael von Korff, Peter Rammelsberg, Hans Jürgen Schindler, and Nikolaos Nikitas Giannakopoulos.
    • Department of Prosthodontics, Frankfurt University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
    • Pain. 2022 Apr 1; 163 (4): e540e546e540-e546.

    AbstractPurpose of this study was to examine the discriminative properties of the 3-item Pain (P), Enjoyment (E), and General activity (G) (PEG) questionnaire for grading impact of nondental orofacial pain. Two hundred eighty-six consecutive patients with orofacial pain of nondental origin filled out the PEG questionnaire and Graded Chronic Pain Scale (GCPS, version 2). Correlation between the PEG and GCPS scores, internal consistency of the PEG, and differences between groups were examined statistically (level of significance: P ≤ 0.05). The mean (±SD) age of the 213 patients (158 female) who were included in the analysis was 43.1 (±16.7) years. Of the sample, 48.8% (n = 104) had some degree of orofacial pain-related disability (mean overall characteristic pain intensity: 51.2 ± 23.2, average overall PEG score: 4.3 ± 2.7, and average PHQ-9 score: 8.2 ± 6.5). No significant differences were found between the sexes for any score. The number of disability points (GCPS) and overall PEG score showed a strong and positive correlation (Spearman ρ = 0.77, P < 0.001). The internal consistency of the PEG questionnaire was high (Cronbach α = 0.86). Assuming 3 different levels of orofacial pain-related disability (mild, moderate, and severe), we obtained overall accuracy of 69.01%, with high specificity for mild and severe cases. The 3 PEG groups (mild, moderate, or severe) differed from each other significantly regarding their clinical grading according to the GCPS (Kruskal-Wallis, P < 0.001). Analysis of the receiver operating characteristic curve showed that a single cutoff value of 3.8 points in the PEG score yields adequate validity (sensitivity = 0.91 and specificity = 0.78). The proposed 2 cutoff points (upper = 7 and lower = 4) yield low sensitivity for the upper threshold. The 3-item PEG questionnaire is suitable for grading impact of nondental orofacial pain.Copyright © 2021 International Association for the Study of Pain.

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