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 |
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The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) Interview is a clinician administered questionnaire to assess alcohol consumption, drinking behaviors, and alcohol-related problems. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The Addiction Behaviors Checklist (ABC) tracks behavior characteristics of addiction related to prescription opioid medications in chronic pain. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI) is used to assess the severity and impact of fatigue, including cancer-related fatigue. |
Supplemental | Fatigue |
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The Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medication, and other Substance Use 2 (TAPS 2) identifies specific substance(s) use and risk level, ranging in severity from problem use to the more severe substance use disorder. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The Timeline Follow Back (TLFB) 90 days is used as a clinical and research tool to obtain a variety of quantitative estimates of marijuana, cigarette, and other drug use over a 90-day period. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The Timeline Follow Back (TLFB) is used as a clinical and research tool to obtain a variety of quantitative estimates of marijuana, cigarette, and other drug use over a 7-day period. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES) to assess motivation for change in problem drinkers. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The PROMIS Severity of Substance Use 7a (Past 30 days) measures the severity of a subject's substance abuse behavior over the past 30 days. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The PROMIS Prescription Pain Med Misuse 7a measures subjects prescription pain medication misuse behavior in the past three months. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The PROMIS Pediatric Anxiety SF 8a, is a self-report measure to assess a child's anxiety level over the past 7 days. |
Supplemental | Anxiety |
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The PROMIS Appeal of Substance Use 7a measures a person's positive appeal of substance use. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (Mini Cog) tool identifies people who might have clinically important, but unrecognized, cognitive impairment. |
Supplemental | Memory |
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The Ocular Pain Assessment Survey (OPAS) measures ocular pain and quality of life. |
Supplemental | Ocular Pain |
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The Keele STarT Back Screening Tool is a brief questionnaire aimed at screening prognostic indicators in patients with low back pain. |
Supplemental | Low Back Pain |
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The Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire (ODI) measures a patient's permanent functional disability. |
Supplemental | Low Back Pain |
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The Roland Morris Low Back Pain and Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) assesses self-rated physical disability caused by low back pain. |
Supplemental | Low Back Pain |
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The Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS) is a 10-item self-report measure of medication adherence in psychosis. |
Supplemental | Medication |
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The Medication Adherence Rating Scale 5 (MARS 5) is a 5-item self-report measure of medication adherence in psychosis. |
Supplemental | Medication |
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The Microbiome Study Bristol Stool Chart classifies feces into seven groups. It is used in both clinical and experimental fields. |
Supplemental | Microbiome |
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The Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale Revised (CAMS R) measures the degree to which individuals experience their thoughts and feelings and does not require meditation training. |
Supplemental | Mindfulness |
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The Applied Mindfulness Process Scale (AMPS) measures the frequency with which people use various mindfulness approaches to cope with daily stressors. |
Supplemental | Mindfulness |
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The PROMIS Alcohol Use 7a assesses a subject's problem drinking behavior. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The NIDA ASSIST ADA modified Levels 1 and 2 measures risky substance use in adult patients. |
Supplemental | Substance Use |
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The Neck Disability Index (NDI) is a self-report questionnaire used to determine how neck pain affects a patient's daily life and to assess the self-rated disability of patients with neck pain. |
Supplemental | Neck Pain |
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The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used to objectively describe the extent of impaired consciousness in all types of acute medical and trauma patients. |
Supplemental | Neurological Assessments |
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