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In the previous study, participants\u2019 responses during a focus group were then used to identify their strategies and beliefs about their approach to completing the questionnaires. Among the beliefs were: (1) difficulties averaging pain over different time periods (i.e., \u201cwhat was your average pain during the last 24h\u201d versus \u201cwhat was your average pain during the last 2 weeks\u201d); (2) difficulty in comparing pain from different etiologies; (3) difficulties in reporting sensations of pain in a manner unaffected by issues and situations secondary to the pain experience, such as difficulties in activities of daily living. In the present paper we use ANOVA (analysis of variance) and partial correlation to determine whether the qualitatively derived perceptions are reflected in the quantitative pain intensity scores.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2015.12.004_s_004\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Participants\u2019 belief that it was difficult to \u201caverage\u201d pain intensity over different time periods was supported. The data do not support their belief that pain intensity scores are affected by other factors: their specific pain diagnosis, and the extent to which pain interfered with their activities of daily living.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2015.12.004_s_005\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>(1) Patients tend to report different levels of pain intensity when asked to report their pain over different periods; (2) insofar as it can be said to exist, the relationship between measures of intensity and interference with activities of daily living is minimal; (3) participants tend to report similar levels of pain intensity, irrespective of etiology.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"j_j.sjpain.2015.12.004_s_006\">\n                    <jats:title>Implications<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>(1) Chronic pain patients\u2019 elicited beliefs and strategies concerning how they complete pain intensity questionnaires are sometimes, but not invariably, reflected in their responses to these measures. Thus, purely qualitative methodologies alone cannot provide completely reliable information and point to the need to use a \u201cmixed methods\u201d approach combining both qualitative and quantitative data; (2) the lack of association between pain intensity measures and interference with activities of daily living, as well as relative insensitivity to different etiologies underlines the problem in relying on pain intensity measures as the primary means of evaluating the success of a treatment, either for pain management or in clinical research.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1016\/j.sjpain.2015.12.004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,9]],"date-time":"2016-01-09T00:46:38Z","timestamp":1452300398000},"page":"73-76","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Patient reported outcome measures of pain intensity: Do they tell us what we need to know?"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"David","family":"Dorfman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, NY , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mary Catherine","family":"George","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, NY , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jessica","family":"Robinson-Papp","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, NY , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tanni","family":"Rahman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, NY , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ronald","family":"Tamler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, NY , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David M.","family":"Simpson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurology , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York, NY , USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"374","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025120909565142020_j_j.sjpain.2015.12.004_ref_001","unstructured":"Jensen MP, Karoly P. 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