Measuring the variation between self-reported osteoarthritis pain assessments

K M Leyland ,J.J Van Meurs,Sally Sheard ,Graeme Jones ,Marc C Hochberg ,Ewa M Roos ,Cyrus Cooper ,Sanchez-Santos ,Stefan Lohmander ,Joanne M Jordan ,Nagahisa Yoshimura ,Lars Engebretsen ,Julia L Newton ,Mark E Batt ,David J Hunter ,Philip G Conaghan ,Michael C Nevitt ,Andrew Judge ,David T Felson ,Sita M A Bierma-Zeinstra ,Lucy Gates ,Kirsten Ambrose ,N K Arden

doi:10.1016/j.joca.2016.01.044

Measuring the variation between self-reported osteoarthritis pain assessments

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2016.01.044

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Journal: Osteoarthritis and cartilage	Publication Date: Mar 20, 2016
Citations: 3	License type: publisher-specific-oa

Affiliation: NIHR Oxford Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Tasmania, University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Southern Denmark, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Lund University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The University of Tokyo, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Versus Arthritis, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Leeds, University of California, San Francisco, Boston University

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Self-reported pain questions are the established way to determine osteoarthritis (OA) related pain in population cohort studies, of which NHANES-type (National Health Nutrition Examination Survey) questions and WOMAC (Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index) are the most common. However, there is limited understanding of how wording variations relating to the duration of pain (i.e. most days in the month) and period of pain recall (i.e. in the last year) affect the prevalence and comparability of these questions. The aim of this research was to assess four common NHANES pain questions and to establish an equivalent threshold within the WOMAC pain subscale.

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