title: Comparative Responsiveness of the PROMIS Pain Interference Short Forms, Brief Pain Inventory, PEG, and SF-36 Bodily Pain Subscale.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare the sensitivity to change and the responsiveness to intervention of the PROMIS Pain Interference short forms, Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), 3-item PEG scale, and SF-36 Bodily Pain subscale in a sample of patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain of moderate severity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Standardized response means, standardized effect sizes, and receiver operating curve analyses were used to assess change between baseline and 3-month assessments in 250 participants who participated in a randomized clinical effectiveness trial of collaborative telecare management for moderate to severe and persistent musculoskeletal pain.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The BPI, PEG, and SF-36 Bodily Pain measures were more sensitive to patient-reported global change than the PROMIS Pain Interference short forms, especially for the clinically improved group, for which the change detected by the PROMIS short forms was not statistically significant. The BPI was more responsive to the clinical intervention than the SF-36 Bodily Pain and PROMIS Pain Interference measures. Post hoc analyses exploring these findings did not suggest that differences in content or rating scale structure (number of response options or anchoring language) adequately explained the observed differences in the detection of change.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this clinical trial, the BPI and PEG measures were better able to detect change than the SF-36 Bodily Pain and PROMIS Pain Interference measures.
authors.affiliation: *VA Salt Lake City Health Care System †Health System Innovation and Research, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT ‡Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine §Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Health Services Research and Development Service CIN 13-416, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Center for Health Information and Communication ∥Regenstrief Institute ¶Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN #Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis VA Health Care System **University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN.
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kean
authors.forename: Patrick O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Monahan
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kroenke
authors.forename: Jingwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Zhangsheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Tim E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Stump
authors.forename: Erin E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Krebs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D057186:Comparative Effectiveness Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D059352:Musculoskeletal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012372:ROC Curve; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*