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Was messen schmerzskalen bei patienten mit rheumatoider arthritis?

What do pain scales measure in patients with rheumatoid arthritis?

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In this study carried out in a sample of 80 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) tried an attempt was made to answer the following questions: 1. are there pain factors with a wider range that are more generally applicable than those covered by current German questionnaires? 2. To what extent can somatic parameters predict pain factors? 3. To what extent can a patient’s pain behavior (a patient’s activity scores) predict pain factors? The study was based on data collected by means of the Pain Experience Questionnaire (PEQ), the McGill Pain Questionnaire MPQ, the West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory WHYMPI, the Measurement Of Patient Outcome Scale MOPO, as well as six different clinical parameters. By means of factor analysis, two second-order factors were extracted, representing 1. the patient’s impairment due to intensive pain and 2. socio-emotional consequences of pain. At a statistically significant level, the first factor can be predicted by the clinical variables. Regression of the activity scores on the factor “socio-emotional consequences” suggests a close correlation between the two variables, although the results failed to reach statistical significance. On the whole, the results strongly support the notion of integrating clinical, behavioral and cognitive findings in the diagnostic assessment of chronic rheumatoid pain patients.

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Die an 80 Patienten mit rheumatoider Arthritis (RA) durchgeführte Untersuchung verfolgt 3 Fragestellungen: 1. Es werden Schmerzfaktoren gesucht, die von größerer Breite und Allgemeinheit als die Dimensionen in einigen derzeit verfügbaren deutsch-sprachigen Fragebögen sind. 2. Es wird geprüft, inwie-weit somatische Parameter der RA diese Schmerzfaktoren vorhersagen können. 3. Schließlich wird untersucht, inwieweit das Krankheitsverhalten, insofern es in den Aktivitäten des Patienten zum Ausdruck kommt, diese Schmerzfaktoren vorhersagen kann. Der Untersuchung lagen die Daten des Pain Experience Questionnaire PEQ [28], des McGill Pain Questionnaire MPQ [18], des West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory WHYMPI [15], des Measurement Of Patient Outcome-Bogens MOPO [14] sowie 6 verschiedene somatische Parameter zugrunde. In der Faktorenanalyse wurde je ein Faktor 2. Ordnung gefunden, der die Beeinträchtigungen des Patienten durch intensiven Schmerz sowie die sozioemotionalen Konsequenzen von Schmerz abbildet. Der erstgenannte Faktor kann durch die somatischen Variablen statistisch überzufällig vorhergesagt werden. Auch die Regression der Aktivitätsvariablen auf den Faktor “sozioemotionale Konsequenzen” deutet einen engeren Zusammenhang beider Variablen an. Jedoch ist dieser Befund statistisch nicht zu sichern. Insgesamt belegen die Ergebnisse die notwendige Integration somatischer, behavioraler und kognitiver Befunde bei der diagnostischen Beurteilung chronisch-rheumatischer Schmerzpatienten.

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Curio, I., Scholz, O.B. Was messen schmerzskalen bei patienten mit rheumatoider arthritis?. Schmerz 4, 207–213 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02527905

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