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To address this gap, we developed and validated the Brief Instrument for the Assessment of Treatment Expectations in Chronic Pain (BITEC) using Item Response Theory.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The study comprised four phases. (I) Twenty\u2010one items were generated from expectation constructs and refined to 11 through a Delphi review (\u2265\u200980% agreement). (II) Comprehensibility was tested in 30 women with fibromyalgia, and the scale was applied to 484 chronic pain patients; items (0\u201310) were recoded into four categories, and IRT reduced them to nine. (III) The final version was administered to 1127 adults with chronic pain (79.3% fibromyalgia; 20.7% nociceptive\/neuropathic), and latent\u2010class modelling defined low\u2013high expectation cutoffs. (IV) Construct validity was assessed via discriminant analyses in calibration (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20091127) and validation (\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009242) samples to evaluate whether BITEC levels differentiated diagnostic groups, pain impact and catastrophizing. (V) We developed a bedside app to support expectation\u2010level classification.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The nine\u2010item BITEC showed discrimination between high and low expectations (AUC 0.915; 95% CI 0.897\u20130.933; sensitivity 79%, specificity 96%). Across both samples, BITEC demonstrated construct validity, distinguishing expectation categories based on symptom severity, catastrophizing and pain burden. Expectation levels varied across pain phenotypes, decreasing from nociceptive pain (56.1%) to fibromyalgia (42.7%) and multiple pain conditions (26.9%). Higher symptom severity was associated with higher expectations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>BITEC is a brief, reliable, theory\u2010grounded instrument for stratifying treatment expectations in chronic pain; applicability across treatment modalities and clinical contexts warrants further investigation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Significance Statement<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Expectations strongly shape therapeutic outcomes but remain difficult to measure. 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