• Melissa Santos, James P Santanelli, and William T Zempsky.
• Connecticut Children's, UConn Health.
• Clin J Pain. 2021 Nov 1; 37 (11): 820824820-824.

ObjectiveTo determine the preliminary reliability and validity of the Pain Burden Inventory-Youth (PBI-Y), a 7-item measure of the impact of chronic pain in adolescents with chronic pain that was, initially validated in youth with sickle cell disease.Materials And MethodsA retrospective chart review of 130 patients presenting to an interdisciplinary pain clinic were examined with 98 (mean age=14.49; 66% female) comprising the final sample. Demographic information as well as adolescent and parent self-reported measures were examined.ResultsYouth reported a variety of pains including abdominal pain, headaches, back pain, and amplified musculoskeletal pain. The PBI-Y demonstrated strong internal reliability (α=0.792) and strong cross-informant concordance (r=0.822; P=0.000). Good construct validity was seen where higher scores on the PBI-Y were correlated with higher scores of (1) functional disability (r=0.689; P=0.000), (2) pain catastrophizing (r=0.494; P=0.000), (3) pain frequency days (r=0.526; P=0.000), (4) usual pain intensity (r=0.467; P=0.000), and (5) the worst pain intensity (r=0.485; P=0.000). Similar results were seen with caregiver assessments. Neither caregiver nor youth reports differed based on the sex or age of the child.DiscussionThe results support the psychometric properties of a brief self-report measure of pain impact in a pediatric chronic pain population. This measure may have great utility for clinicians caring for youth with chronic pain.Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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