Psychometric and accuracy comparison of three commonly used questionnaires for the diagnosis of neuropathic pain.

Autor: Abolkhair AB; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., El-Kabbani AO; School of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Al-Mulhem A; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal general Hospital, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia., AlFattani AA; Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Scientific Computing, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Al-Hammadi A; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Alghamdi H; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Haddarra M; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Alraffa A; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Kamal AS; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia., Alsaigh RN; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia., Mubarak MM; Department of Anesthesiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Terkawi AS; Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Pain Division, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Saudi journal of anaesthesia [Saudi J Anaesth] 2021 Oct-Dec; Vol. 15 (4), pp. 409-418. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Sep 02.
DOI: 10.4103/sja.sja_352_21
Abstrakt: Objectives: Diagnosis of neuropathic pain is challenging. Recently, scientists developed multiple questionnaires to expedite this diagnosis including the Self-completed Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs (S-LANSS), Douleur Neuropathique 4 questionnaire (DN4), and Neuropathic Pain Questionnaire-Short Form (NPQ-SF).
Materials and Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study to compare the psychometric characteristics and accuracy of the three questionnaires. We assessed reliability with the Cronbach's α reliability coefficient and inter-item correlations, and validity with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and correlation analyses. We assessed agreement between the diagnosis of the questionnaires and the reference clinical diagnosis using Cohen's kappa coefficient.
Results: 188 patients were analyzed: 141 (75%) had "definite neuropathic" and 47 (25%) had "nonneuropathic" pain. The NPQ-SF and S-LANSS questionnaires demonstrated acceptable reliability with Cronbach's α coefficient values of 0.54 (95% CI: 0.41-0.64) and 0.65, (95%CI: 0.57-0.72), respectively. The DN4 questionnaire demonstrated high reliability with Cronbach's α coefficient of 0.74 (95%CI: 0.68-0.79). The NPQ-SF, DN4, and S-LANSS questionnaires demonstrated "excellent" diagnostic ability with an area under the ROC curve of 0.82 (95% CI: 0.75-0.89), 0.89 (95% CI: 0.83-0.95), and 0.83 (95% CI: 0.75-0.90), respectively. Based on their optimal cutoff values, the DN4 had the highest sensitivity and lowest specificity in discriminating between neuropathic and nonneuropathic patients, while the S-LANSS had the lowest sensitivity and highest specificity.
Conclusion: Both NPQ-SF and S-LANSS demonstrated acceptable reliability, while DN4 demonstrated high reliability. All three demonstrated excellent diagnostic validities; however, it is important to consider the sensitivity and specificity of each.
Competing Interests: There are no conflicts of interest.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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