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 Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities SF 4a measures satisfaction with performing one's usual social roles and activities.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The PROMIS Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities SF 8a measures satisfaction with performing one's usual social roles and activities.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The PROMIS Instrumental Support 6a is a self-reported measure to assess assistance with material, cognitive or task performance.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The PROMIS Instrumental Support 8a is a self-reported measure to assess assistance with material, cognitive or task performance.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The PROMIS Mobility Item Bank is an item bank to assess a dimension of physical functioning.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness Version 2 (MAIA-2) is an 8-subscale state-trait self-report questionnaire to measure multiple dimensions of interoception. The MAIA-2 is suitable for adults (18+) and has 37 items.

Supplemental Pain Symptom and Assessment

The Big Five Inventory 10 (BFI 10) is a 10-item scale measuring the Big Five personality traits Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness. The scale was developed based on the 44-item Big Five Inventory.

Supplemental Personality

The Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI 2) is a scale measuring the Big Five personality traits Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Openness. The scale was developed based on the 44-item Big Five Inventory.

Supplemental Personality

The NEO Personality Inventory 3 (NEO-PI-3) is a comprehensive measure of the five major domains of personality (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) and the six facets that define each domain.

Supplemental Personality

The International Physical Activity Questionnaire long form (IPAQ LF) was developed for adults aged 18 to 65 years with the aim to assess population levels of physical activity across countries.

Supplemental Physical Activity

The International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form (IPAQ SF) was developed for adults aged 18 to 65 years with the aim to assess population levels of physical activity across countries.

Supplemental Physical Activity

The Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) assesses consumer satisfaction with health and human services including governmental and public benefit programs and services.

Supplemental Satisfaction

The Domain Specific Life Satisfaction Ages 18+ Fixed Form assesses one's cognitive evaluation of life experiences and is concerned with whether people like their lives or not.

Supplemental Satisfaction

The Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) evaluates the quality of mobile health applications.

Supplemental Satisfaction

The Pain Outcomes Questionnaire (POQ) is a multidimensional treatment outcomes measure that assesses specific aspects of pain syndromes.

Supplemental Satisfaction

The PROMIS Positive Affect 15a is a 15-item tool to assess happiness, serenity, and cognitive engagement of the person.

Supplemental Protective Factors

The Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form (SCS-SF) is a 12-item self-report measure used by adults to measure their capacity for self-compassion (the ability to hold one's feelings of suffering with a sense of warmth, connection and concern).

Supplemental Protective Factors

The PROMIS Psychosocial Illness Impact Negative 8a assesses the direct negative psychosocial effect of an illness, distinct from general emotional distress.

Supplemental Psychosocial Impact

The PROMIS Psychosocial Illness Impact Positive 8a assesses positive psychosocial (emotional and social) outcomes of illness.

Supplemental Psychosocial Impact

The Norfolk Quality of Life-Diabetic Neuropathy (QOL-DN) questionnaire is an instrument to assess QOL in diabetic polyneuropathy.

Supplemental Quality of Life

The SF 8 Health Survey instrument measures health-related quality of life over the past 4 weeks.

Supplemental Quality of Life

The World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief with Demographics and Administration Questions (WHOQOL-BREF) assesses quality of life (QOL) within the context of an individual's culture, value systems, personal goals, standards and concerns.

Supplemental Quality of Life

The Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) measures physical function in patients with musculoskeletal and non-musculoskeletal disorders.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The PROMIS Physical Function 4a is a 4 item self-reported capability rather than actual performance of physical activities.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

The PROMIS Physical Function 8b is a 8 item self-reported capability rather than actual performance of physical activities.

Supplemental Physical Functioning

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