Articles: pain-measurement.
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The Pain Resilience Scale (PRS), which measures behavioral perseverance and the ability to regulate emotions and cognition despite ongoing pain, lacks an Arabic version. ⋯ The PRS-A demonstrated validity and acceptable reliability among Arab-speaking individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain, suggesting its potential utility for assessing pain resilience within this population.
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Background: Strong associations have been demonstrated between chronic musculoskeletal pain, pain-related fear-avoidance (FA) of activities of daily living, and functional disability. The Fear Avoidance Components Scale (FACS) is a patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure, which was designed to evaluate cognitive, emotional, and behavioural dimensions of FA. Objective: The study aims were to translate the English version of the FACS into Simplified Chinese and then to examine its psychometric properties. ⋯ Strong correlations were found between FACS-Chi scores and other PRO measures of perceived level of disability, pain catastrophizing, and pain-related anxiety (p < 0.001 for all analyses). Conclusions: The FACS-Chi demonstrated good psychometric properties, including excellent test-retest reliability and internal consistency and satisfactory construct validity. The FACS-Chi may be a useful measure of pain-related FA in Chinese-speaking patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
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Background: Current evidence indicates that some phenotypic characteristics, such as eye or hair color, might be associated with the experience of pain. We, therefore, compared the anesthetic success rate of inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) and postoperative pain scores between light eyes and dark eyes in female patients who experienced symptomatic irreversible pulpitis (SIP) in a mandibular molar. Methods: This prospective, parallel-group, observational study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06206304). ⋯ Conclusion: Pain scores decreased significantly after RCT in both groups on all days (p < 0.05). No significant differences were found in the success rate of IANB and postop pain scores between light- and dark-eyed female patients who experienced SIP in a mandibular molar. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT06206304.
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The experience of pain associated with labour is complex and challenging to assess. A range of pain measurement tools are reported in the literature. This review aimed to identify current tools used in research to assess labour pain across the past decade and to evaluate their implementation and adequacy when used in the context of labour pain. ⋯ Numerous variations in the implementation of scales were noted. This included 35 variations found in the wording of the upper and lower anchors of the Visual Analogue Scale, some assessment tools not allowing an option for "no pain," and instances where only sections of validated tools were used. It is clear that development of a standardised pain assessment strategy, which evaluates the multidimensions of labour pain efficiently and effectively and allows for both positive and negative experiences of pain to be reported, is needed.
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The objective of this systematic review was to provide a comprehensive overview of the measurement properties of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) used to assess resilience in individuals with musculoskeletal and rheumatic conditions. ⋯ Although BRCS, RS-18, CD-RISC, and PRS have been used to evaluate resilience in individuals with musculoskeletal and rheumatic conditions, the current evidence only supports the use of PRS and CD-RISC in this population. Further methodological studies are therefore needed and should prioritize the assessment of reliability and responsiveness.