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Debbie Bean Health Psychologist, Auckland Regional Pain Service (TARPS), Auckland, NZ |
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Debbie
Bean is a Health Psychologist and has worked at the Auckland Regional Pain
Service (TARPS) since 2006. Her clinical
work focusses on the assessment and treatment of chronic pain patients in an
interdisciplinary setting. In 2015
Debbie completed her PhD in Health Psychology at The University of
Auckland. Her research interests include
complex regional pain syndrome, the influence of psychological factors on pain,
and the relationship between pain and sleep disturbance.
Outcome Measures for Chronic Pain Measuring the extent of success following treatment of chronic pain is a challenge for clinicians and researchers. Due to the lack of objective measures for pain, pain outcomes are usually measured with self-report questionnaires. This talk will discuss the nature of self-report measures and how to select measures with adequate reliability and validity; the various outcome domains considered important by researchers, and how these correspond with the outcome domains considered important by patients; how to determine whether a change is clinically meaningful; the difference between ‘outcome’ and ‘process’ variables; and practical issues involved in collecting outcome data from patients. |