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 Familism scale (FS) is a 15 item measure of familism under three constructs: familial obligations, support from the family, and family as referents.

 Supplemental Social Support

The Health Literacy (HI) questionnaire is a three-item assessment to measure literacy in Spanish-speaking and diverse English-speaking populations, in the healthcare setting.

 Supplemental Health Literacy

The Health Literacy questionnaire (HL) is a three-item assessment to measure literacy in Spanish-speaking and diverse English-speaking populations, in the healthcare setting.

 Supplemental Health Literacy

The Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) measures the frequency of depressed mood and anhedonia over the past two weeks.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute, Pediatrics, Supplemental Depression

The PROMIS Physical Function 6b assesses physical function through a grading scale of daily living activities.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Physical Functioning

The PROMIS 6a scale measures sleep disturbances in the past 7 days.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Sleep

The PROMIS 6a scale is composed of 6 items developed to assess the domain of sleep disturbances in the past 7 days.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Sleep

The Sleep Duration question measures the average amount of sleep the participant slept each night, in the past month.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Sleep

The Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medications, and other Substance (TAPS) Tool measures the participants tobacco use, alcohol use, prescription medication misuse, and illicit substance use in the past year.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Substance Use

The World Health Organization Quality of Life (QOL) 2 item assesses quality of life and satisfaction of health.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Quality of Life

The Adolescent Sleep Wake Scale 10 (AWS-10) and Sleep pattern/duration items from the Children's Report of Sleep Patterns (CRSP) measures pediatric participants sleep behaviors and patterns.

 All Core, Pediatrics Sleep

The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) pain interference questions assess the impact of pain on daily functions.

 All Core, Adult Acute Pain Interference

The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) pain severity questions assess the severity of the participants pain in the past 24 hours.

 Adult Acute, Adult Chronic, All Core, Pediatrics Pain Intensity

The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) pain severity questions assess the severity of the participants pain in the past 7 days.

 All Core, Pediatrics Pain Intensity

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2 (GAD-2) is an initial screening tool for generalized anxiety disorder.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute, Pediatrics Anxiety

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) is an initial screening tool for generalized anxiety disorder.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute, Pediatrics, Supplemental Anxiety

The NIDA-Modified ASSIST is a self-report measurement to assess participants for risky substance use.

 All Core, Pediatrics Substance Use

The Opioid MME is the amount of milligrams of morphine an opioid dose is equal to when prescribed. Calculating MME accounts for differences in opioid drug type and strength.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Opioids

The Pain Catastrophizing Scale Child (PCS-C) measures the state of mind of a pediatric participant in pain that encompasses the different perspectives on worrying.

 All Core, Pediatrics Pain Catastrophizing

The Pain Catastrophizing Scale Parent (PCS-P) measures the thoughts and feelings that parents may experience when their child is in pain.

 All Core, Pediatrics Pain Catastrophizing

The Pain Catastrophizing Scale 13 (PCS-13) measures the state of mind of a participant in pain that encompasses the different perspectives on worrying.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute, Supplemental Pain Catastrophizing

The Pain Catastrophizing Scale 6 (PCS-6) measures the state of mind of a participant in pain that encompasses the different perspectives on worrying.

 All Core, Adult Chronic, Adult Acute Pain Catastrophizing

The Pediatric Demographics are a set of demographic questions to gain background information on pediatric participants.

 All Core, Pediatrics Demographics

The PedsQL Inventory measures the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in healthy children and adolescents and those with acute and chronic health conditions.

 All Core, Pediatrics Physical Functioning

The Pain, Enjoyment of Life and General Activity (PEG) scale is used for quickly assessing and monitoring chronic pain.

 All Core, Adult Chronic

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