• Michael A Owens, Chung Jung Mun, Katrina R Hamilton, Abbey Hughes, Claudia M Campbell, Robert R Edwards, and Michael T Smith.
• Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States.
• Pain Med. 2023 Nov 2; 24 (11): 122412331224-1233.

ObjectiveUp to 40% of individuals who undergo total knee arthroplasty (TKA) experience some degree of pain following surgery. Presurgical insomnia has been identified as a predictor of postsurgical pain; however, modifiable presurgical behaviors related to insomnia have received minimal attention. The objective of the present study was to develop a 2-item sleep and pain behavior scale (SP2) to investigate a maladaptive sleep and pain behavior and is a secondary analysis of a larger, parent study.MethodsPatients (N = 109) completed SP2 at baseline and 12 months and questionnaires assessing sleep and pain at baseline (pre-TKA), 6 weeks, 3, 6, and 12 months post-TKA. SP2 demonstrated adequate preliminary psychometric properties.ResultsAs hypothesized, even after controlling for baseline insomnia, pain, anxiety and other covariates, baseline SP2 predicted insomnia symptom severity at 6 weeks (β = 2.828), 3 (β = 2.140), 6 (β = 2.962), and 12 months (β = 1.835) and pain at 6 weeks (β = 6.722), 3 (β = 5.536), and 6 months (β = 7.677) post-TKA (P < .05). Insomnia symptoms at 6-weeks post-TKA mediated the effect of presurgical SP2 on pain at 3 (95% CI: 0.024-7.054), 6 (95%CI: 0.495-5.243), and 12 months (95% CI: 0.077-2.684).ConclusionsThis provides preliminary evidence that patients who cope with pain by retiring to their bed and bedroom have higher rates of post-surgical insomnia and pain and supports efforts to target this maladaptive sleep and pain behavior to reduce postsurgical pain.© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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