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Development And Preliminary Psychometric Testing Of The Centrality Of Pain Scale, Christina Nicolaidis, Teresa Chianello, Martha Gerrity
Development And Preliminary Psychometric Testing Of The Centrality Of Pain Scale, Christina Nicolaidis, Teresa Chianello, Martha Gerrity
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Objective: To develop and begin to evaluate a new measure of the centrality of pain in patients' lives.
Design: Cross-sectional survey and cognitive interviews.
Setting: Academic general internal medicine clinic.
Patients: 65 adult internal medicine patients with chronic non-malignant pain (CNMP).
Outcome measures: We assessed content validity and clarity of the 10-item Centrality of Pain Scale (COPS) by soliciting feedback from chronic pain experts and by conducting cognitive interviews with patients with CNMP. We assessed internal consistency reliability using Cronbach's alpha. We assessed construct validity by comparing the COPS with other measures of chronic pain …