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 Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ) is a 24 item self-report measure that examines experiences with potentially traumatic events such as crime, general disaster, and sexual and physical assault using a yes/no format.

Supplemental Trauma/PTSD

The Brief Religious Coping (Brief RCOPE) is a 14-item measure of religious coping with major life stressors.

Supplemental Values

The PROMIS Anger 8a assess self-reported angry mood (irritability, frustration), negative social cognitions (interpersonal sensitivity, envy, disagreeableness), and efforts to control anger.

Supplemental Anger

The Michigan Body Map (MBM) is a self-report measure to assess body areas where chronic pain is experienced and to specifically quantify the degree of widespread body pain when assessing for centralized pain features.

Supplemental Body Maps

The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM D) is a multiple-item questionnaire used to provide an indication of depression, and as a guide to evaluate recovery.

Supplemental Depression

The Frequency, Intensity, and Burden of Side Effects Ratings (FIBSER) is a 3 item scale to assess side effects from antidepressant treatment.

Supplemental General Health Measures

The PROMIS Social Isolation SF 8a assesses perceptions of being avoided, excluded, detached, disconnected from, or unknown by others.

Supplemental Social Support

The International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI) is an assessment for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and their measurement properties have been evaluated in patients with traumatic lesions.

Supplemental Spinal Cord

The Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM) assesses traumatic and non-traumatic, acute and chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).

Supplemental Spinal Cord

The Pain Stages of Change Questionnaire Adolescent (PSOCQ A) measures an individual's willingness to adopt a self-management plan to control their chronic pain in the adolescent population.

Supplemental Stages of Change

The Perceived Stress Scale 4 item (PSS 4) measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful.

Supplemental Stress

The Perceived Stress Scale 10 item (PSS 10) measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful.

Supplemental Stress

The Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification (OSU TBI ID) is a standardized procedure for eliciting a person's lifetime history of TBI through a 3-5 minute structured interview.

Supplemental TBI

The Symptom Evaluation Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT) aids in evaluation of athletes suspected of having sustained an assessment and management of concussion.

Supplemental TBI

The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) is a 20-item measure that asks caregivers to rate how often, over the past week, they experienced symptoms associated with depression, such as restless sleep, poor appetite, and feeling lonely.

Supplemental Depression

The Measure of Sickle Cell Stigma (MoSCS) is an 11-item questionnaire that assesses the amount of total stigma experienced by sickle cell disease patients.

Supplemental Sickle Cell

The PROMIS Pediatric Mobility 8a is a scale to assess a dimension of physical functioning, in the pediatric population.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The Six-Item Screener is a brief instrument for identifying subjects with cognitive impairment and its diagnostic properties are comparable to the full Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Supplemental Cognitive Function

The Brief Pain Inventory SF 7 day recall (BPI SF) assesses the severity of pain and the impact of pain on daily functions, over the past 7 days.

Supplemental Pain Quality

The Telehealth Usability Questionnaire (TUQ) is a comprehensive questionnaire that covers all usability factors of telehealth, including usefulness, ease of use, effectiveness, reliability, and satisfaction.

Supplemental Technology

The Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) 5 is a global mental status test that can either be administered over the telephone or face-to-face.

Supplemental Technology

The Acceptance and action questionnaire (AAQ-SA) is an instrument to assess experiential avoidance and psychological inflexibility to substance misuse.

Supplemental Substance Use

The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) is a self report anxiety inventory consisting of 21 questions. The BAI assesses frequency of anxiety symptoms over a 1 week period while minimizing their relationship with depression.

Supplemental Anxiety

The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Breast (FACT-B) is a 37-item instrument designed to measure five domains of HRQOL in breast cancer patients: Physical, social, emotional, functional well-being as well as a breast-cancer subscale.

Supplemental Cancer

The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale Short Form (MSAS-SF) provides multidimensional information about a diverse group of common symptoms in the cancer population.

Supplemental Cancer

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