Abahussin, AA orcid.org/0000-0002-7831-1445, West, RM orcid.org/0000-0001-7305-3654, Wong, DC orcid.org/0000-0001-8117-9193 et al. (1 more author) (2019) PROMs for pain in adult cancer patients: a systematic review of measurement properties. Pain Practice, 19 (1). pp. 93-117. ISSN 1530-7085
Abstract
Context: Pain is one of the most devastating symptoms for cancer patients. One‐third of patients who experience pain do not receive effective treatment. A key barrier to effective pain management is lack of routine measurement and monitoring of pain.
Patient‐Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are recommended for measuring cancer pain. However, evidence to guide the selection of the most appropriate measure to identify and monitor cancer pain is limited. A systematic review of measurement properties of PROMs for pain in cancer patients is needed to identify the best validated measure for adoption to an electronic platform.
Objectives: Systematically review measurement properties of PROMs used for adult cancer patients to measure pain and, as a secondary goal, investigate the evidence of validated mobile health (mHealth) applications used to measure pain (registration number: CRD42017065575).
Methods: Medline, EMBASE and CINAHL were systematically searched in March 2018 for studies examining measurement properties for PROMs for pain in adult cancer patients. Both of the methodological quality of the studies and their results were appraised using the COSMIN checklist and specific measurement properties criteria respectively.
Results: Sixteen studies evaluating eight instruments were included. No studies using a PROM in a mHealth application were identified. The methodological quality of the measurement properties ranged between poor and fair. No instrument showed strong positive evidence for all the evaluated measurement properties. Based on the available evidence, the Brief Pain Inventory‐Short Form (BPI‐SF) had the strongest evidence to support its selection for the measurement of cancer pain.
Conclusion: The BPI‐SF was the best performing measure across all proprieties evaluated through COSMIN. Better quality validation studies of PROMs for cancer pain are needed to explore the full range of measurement properties. Utilising mHealth applications for measuring pain for cancer patients is an innovative approach worth of further investigation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 World Institute of Pain. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Abahussin, A. A., West, R. M., Wong, D. C. and Ziegler, L. E. (2018), PROMs for pain in adult cancer patients: a systematic review of measurement properties. Pain Pract. Accepted Author Manuscript. . doi:10.1111/papr.12711, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/papr.12711. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | PROMs; Pain Measurement; Cancer; Adult; Psychometrics; Measurement properties; Systematic review |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Health Sciences (Leeds) > Centre for Health Services Research (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2018 15:04 |
Last Modified: | 17 May 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/papr.12711 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130894 |