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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2010 Aug 4;63(11):1179–1194. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.04.011

Table 6.

Pain: Correlations between PROMIS Banks, Legacy Measures and Short Forms

BPI1 (Severity) BPI1 (Interference) SF36-BP2 Pain Behavior4 Pain Interference N3 Correlation with Pain Behavior Short Form4 N3 Correlation with Pain Interference Short Form
BPI (Severity)
 1.00
N/A N/A 776 0.76
BPI (Interference)
 0.84
 1.00
 N/A N/A 774 0.84
SF36-BP
 −0.85
 −0.84
 1.00
 N/A N/A 724 −0.82
Pain Behavior Bank
1.00
 794 0.98 N/A N/A
Pain Interf. Bank 0.81 0.85 −0.86 0.77 1.00 N/A N/A 796 0.95
Pain Intensity item 0.83 0.74 −0.78 0.69 0.76 794 0.60 795 0.69
1

Brief Pain Inventory

2

SF36 Bodily Pain Scale

3

N=sample size

4

Based on calibrations drawn from general population and a chronic pain community sample

Inline graphic data not available

Inline graphic based on block-testing data

Inline graphic based on full-bank data