Statistical modeling of acute and chronic pain patient-reported outcomes obtained from ecological momentary assessment.
Pain
; 165(9): 1955-1965, 2024 Sep 01.
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) allows for the collection of participant-reported outcomes (PROs), including pain, in the normal environment at high resolution and with reduced recall bias. Ecological momentary assessment is an important component in studies of pain, providing detailed information about the frequency, intensity, and degree of interference of individuals' pain. However, there is no universally agreed on standard for summarizing pain measures from repeated PRO assessment using EMA into a single, clinically meaningful measure of pain. Here, we quantify the accuracy of summaries (eg, mean and median) of pain outcomes obtained from EMA and the effect of thresholding these summaries to obtain binary clinical end points of chronic pain status (yes/no). Data applications and simulations indicate that binarizing empirical estimators (eg, sample mean, random intercept linear mixed model) can perform well. However, linear mixed-effect modeling estimators that account for the nonlinear relationship between average and variability of pain scores perform better for quantifying the true average pain and reduce estimation error by up to 50%, with larger improvements for individuals with more variable pain scores. We also show that binarizing pain scores (eg, <3 and ≥3) can lead to a substantial loss of statistical power (40%-50%). Thus, when examining pain outcomes using EMA, the use of linear mixed models using the entire scale (0-10) is superior to splitting the outcomes into 2 groups (<3 and ≥3) providing greater statistical power and sensitivity.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Dimensión del Dolor
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Modelos Estadísticos
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Dolor Agudo
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Dolor Crónico
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Medición de Resultados Informados por el Paciente
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Evaluación Ecológica Momentánea
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
Revista:
Pain
Año:
2024
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Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos