Common Data Elements (CDEs) Repository

Common Data Elements (CDEs) Repository

The NIH HEAL Initiative’s  aims to harmonize the data collected by the initiative’s studies, enhancing the comparability of various data sets generated by HEAL research.

HEAL researchers and potential applicants conducting research with human participants should also prioritize using the HEAL CDEs. Researchers outside the HEAL Initiative conducting pain research may also be interested in using validated and structured questionnaires.

The 'core' questionnaires in ten domains, demographic information, and opioid usage are required for the human subjects in pain HEAL grants and are organized depending on the type of pain and population being studied.

Description Core or Supplemental Research Topic CDE Files

The PROMIS Anxiety CAT is a 29-item bank, focusing on fear, worry, dread, hyperarousal and somatic symptoms.

 Supplemental Anxiety

The Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions Screener (COPCS) assesses for the presence of one or more of the chronic overlapping pain conditions.

 Supplemental

The DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure (DSM-XC) is a self or informant rated measure that assesses mental health domains across psychiatric diagnoses.

 Supplemental Behavioral health

The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) assesses child anxiety during induction of anesthesia.

 Supplemental Anxiety

The 6 Minute Walk Test is a sub-maximal exercise test used to assess aerobic capacity and endurance.

 Supplemental Biomechanics

The 2 Minute Walk Test is a measure of self-paced walking ability and functional capacity.

 Supplemental Biomechanics

The PROMIS Pediatric Upper Extremity 8a assesses a dimension of physical functioning, upper extremity, in a pediatric population.

 Supplemental Biomechanics

The Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS) evaluates pain anxiety, which leads to avoidance of daily activities and normal movements.

 Supplemental Anxiety

The Knee Injury Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS-12) evaluates both short-term and long-term consequences of knee injury.

 Supplemental Arthritis

The Trail Making Test (TMT) is a neuropsychological assessment to indicate speed of cognitive processing and executive functioning.

 Supplemental Cognitive Function

The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) 24 item measures the use of strategies for coping with pain by assessing six domains: distraction; catastrophizing; ignoring pain sensations; distancing from pain.

 Supplemental Coping with pain

The PROMIS Cognitive Function 4a assesses patient-perceived cognitive deficits.

 Supplemental Cognitive Function

The PROMIS Emotional Distress Depression 8b assesses the depression in individuals age 18 and older.

 Supplemental Depression

The Beck Depression Inventory II is a brief, self-report inventory designed to measure the severity of depression symptomatology.

 Supplemental Depression

The Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory (Brief-COPE) is a 28 item self-report questionnaires measures effective and ineffective ways to cope with a stressful life event.

 Supplemental Coping with pain

The PROMIS Emotional Distress Depression 4a assesses the depression in individuals age 18 and older.

 Supplemental Depression

The Pediatric Glasgow Coma Score (PGCS) measures the severity of traumatic brain injury in a pediatric population.

 Supplemental Coma

The PROMIS Pediatric Depressive Symptoms 8a assesses the depression, in a pediatric population.

 Supplemental Depression

The PROMIS Cognitive Function Abilities 6a measures patient-perceived cognitive abilities over the past 7 days.

 Supplemental Cognitive Function

The Post Hospitalization Behavior Questionnaire (PHBQ) assesses children's post-hospitalization and postoperative new-onset behavioral changes.

 Supplemental Coping with pain

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a screening tool that diagnoses postpartum depression (PPD) or anxiety.

 Supplemental Depression

The Multidimensional Inventory of Subjective Cognitive Impairment (MISCI) measure of cognitive dysfunction in subjects who suffer from fibromyalgia.

 Supplemental Cognitive Function

The Rural-Urban Commuting Area (RUCA) codes measures population density, levels of urbanization and journey-to-work commuting to characterize U.S. census tracts.

 Supplemental Demographics

The PROMIS Emotional Support 6a measures feelings of being cared for and having confident relationships.

 Supplemental Emotional Support

The Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC TMD) is multifactorial and includes biologic, environmental, social, emotional, and cognitive triggers. Diagnosis is most often based on history and physical examination.

 Supplemental Facial Pain

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