Assessing Multisensory Sensitivity Across Scales: Using the Resulting Core Factors to Create the Multisensory Amplification Scale
Autor: | Karen Eilers, Dan Wang, Colton Schnetzer, Ethan Lahn, Sabrina Casares, Megan Loux, Laura Frey-Law, Shannon Hitchcock, Ryan Iverson |
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Rok vydání: | 2022 |
Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Psychometrics Audiology Odds Perceptual Disorders Young Adult Schema (psychology) medicine Humans Aged Aged 80 and over Central Nervous System Sensitization business.industry Somatosensory amplification Perspective (graphical) Chronic pain Reproducibility of Results Construct validity Gold standard (test) Middle Aged medicine.disease digestive system diseases Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Neurology Quartile Sensation Disorders Female Neurology (clinical) Chronic Pain business |
Zdroj: | The Journal of Pain. 23:276-288 |
ISSN: | 1526-5900 |
Popis: | Multisensory sensitivity (MSS), observed in some chronic pain patients, may reflect a generalized central nervous system sensitivity. While several surveys measure aspects of MSS, there remains no gold standard. We explored the underlying constructs of four MSS-related surveys (80 items in total) using factor analyses using REDCap surveys (N = 614, 58.7% with pain). Four core- and six associated-MSS factors were identified from the items assessed. None of these surveys addressed all major sensory systems and most included additional related constructs. A revised version of the Somatosensory Amplification Scale was developed, encompassing five core MSS systems: vision, hearing, smell, tactile, and internal bodily sensations: the 12-item Multisensory Amplification Scale (MSAS). The MSAS demonstrated good internal consistency (alpha = 0.82), test-retest reliability (ICC3,1 = 0.90), and construct validity in the original and in a new, separate cohort (R = 0.54 - 0.79, p < 0.0001). Further, the odds of having pain were 2 - 3.5 times higher in the highest sex-specific MSAS quartile relative to the lowest MSAS quartile, after adjusting for age, sex, BMI, and pain schema (p < 0.03). The MSAS provides a psychometrically comprehensive, brief, and promising tool for measuring the core-dimensions of MSS. PERSPECTIVE: Multiple multisensory sensitivity (MSS) tools are used, but without exploration of their underlying domains. We found several measures lacking core MSS domains, thus we modified an existing scale to encompass five core MSS domains: light, smell, sound, tactile, and internal bodily sensations using only 12 items, with good psychometric properties. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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