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 Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome Yellow Flag (OSPRO-YF) is a multidimensional screening tool used to assess psychosocial factors in individuals with musculoskeletal pain.

Supplemental Pain Interference

The PROMIS Pain Intensity 3a measures the severity of the pain, over the past 7 days.

Supplemental Pain Intensity

The Patient Health Questionnaire Modified for Adolescents (PHQ A | PHQ M) is a self-report questionnaire that is designed for the purpose of assessing anxiety, mood, eating, and substance use disorders among adolescent primary care patients.

Supplemental Depression

The PROMIS Pediatric Sleep-Related Impairment 8a assesses sleep-related impairment over the past seven days, in the pediatric population.

Supplemental Sleep

The Personal Resource Questionnaire (PRQ 2000) contains 15 items to understand the level of perceived social support.

Supplemental Social Support

The Sickle Cell Self-Efficacy Scale (SCSES) is comprised of nine questions relating to participants' perceptions of their ability to function on a day-to-day basis and to manage SCD symptomatology (e.g. episodes of pain).

Supplemental Sickle Cell

The Snaith Hamilton Pleasure Scale assesses anhedonia based on respondents' "hedonic capacity" for experiencing pleasure.

Supplemental Emotional Support

The Social Support and Pain Questionnaire (SPQ) assess the influence of social support in subjects with various types of pain.

Supplemental Social Support

The Cancer Behavior Inventory-Brief Version (CBI-B) a 12-item measure of self-efficacy for coping with cancer derived from the longer 33-item version.

Supplemental Cancer

The Intersectional Discrimination Index (InDI) consists of three subscales measuring the health impacts of intersectional experiences with anticipated (InDI-A), day-to-day (InDI-D), and major (InDI-M) discrimination.

Supplemental Discrimination

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) questions assess sex, gender and sexual orientation of the participant.

Supplemental Demographics

The Activity Pacing Questionnaire (APQ) contains 38 items that appear to involve a number of different facets of pacing, including breaking down tasks, setting goals, and gradually increasing activities.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The Decisional Conlifct Scale (DCS) assess uncertainty in choosing options inmodifiable factors contributing to uncertainty and effective decision making.

Supplemental Shared Decision

The Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) is an inventory of the most common life stressors.

Supplemental Stress

The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) measures health and disability across cultures.

Supplemental Disability

The PROMIS Cancer Emotional Distress Depression Item bank assesses despression in subjects who have or have had cancer.

Supplemental Cancer

The Children's Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES) - Child Report is a self-report tool that examines self-efficacy despite pain to assess normal functioning and well behavior.

Supplemental Self-Efficacy

The Children's Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES) - Parent Report was developed to mirror the child measure and was designed to measure how sure parents are of their child's ability to function when in pain.

Supplemental Self-Efficacy

The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Positive Reappraisal (CERQ) has 36-items in total and consists of nine subscales referring to thoughts of putting the blame of what you have experienced on the environment or another person.

Supplemental Emotional Support

The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI) is effective in distinguishing psychological flexibility from distress.

Supplemental Psychosocial Impact

The Penn Online Evaluation of Migraine (POEM) is a web-based, branching logic questionnaire for the automated classification of migraine.

Supplemental Headache/Migraine

The PROMIS Sleep Disturbance Short Form assesses the pure domain of sleep disturbance in individuals age 18 and older.

Supplemental Sleep

The Craving Scale is a 3-item measure of craving that has been previously validated in cocaine-dependent samples.

Supplemental Substance Use

The McGill Pain Questionnaire provides quantitative measures of clinical pain that would capture its sensory, affective and other qualitative components, and allow statistical analysis of data collected during clinical research and practice.

Supplemental Pain Quality

The Ferrara Group Experiences Scale (FEGES) is conceptually derived and assesses dimensions of group experience that are theoretically and practically relevant. It is brief, easy to use and has good psychometric properties

Supplemental Social Support

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