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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2013 Jul 9;23(1):245–255. doi: 10.1007/s11136-013-0467-9

Table A1.

EFA Pain Quality - Rotated Factor Pattern from Exploratory Factor Analysis Pain Quality 37-item Based on PROMIS Wave1 Data only Base on 6-factor solution using Maximum Likelihood estimator

ID Item Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5 Factor 6
PAINQU12 How intense was your aching pain? 0.77 −0.02 −0.06 0.05 0.12 0.00
PAINQU49 How intense was your annoying pain? 0.72 0.02 0.05 0.10 0.03 0.00
PAINQU1 How intense was your dull pain? 0.71 −0.04 −0.03 −0.04 0.04 0.04
PAINQU53 How often did you experience nagging pain? 0.63 0.19 0.13 −0.07 −0.00 −0.03
PAINQU33 How intense was your sore pain? 0.62 −0.02 0.13 −0.01 −0.07 0.15
PAINQU19 How intense was your tender pain? 0.37 0.15 0.09 −0.03 0.05 0.17
PAINQU50 How intense was your radiating pain? 0.31 0.16 0.05 0.19 0.09 0.12
PAINQU3 How intense was your cramping pain? 0.26 −0.03 0.07 0.10 0.13 0.13
PAINQU45 How often did you experience torturing pain? −0.01 0.79 −0.02 0.12 0.10 −0.06
PAINQU54 How often did you experience vicious pain? 0.02 0.77 −0.06 0.02 0.11 0.04
PAINQU38 How often did you experience cruel pain? 0.09 0.75 −0.03 0.05 0.00 0.02
PAINQU47 How often did you experience unbearable pain? 0.08 0.74 −0.04 0.15 0.01 −0.01
PAINQU42 How often did you experience tearing (ripping) pain? 0.07 0.62 0.20 −0.18 −0.02 0.14
PAINQU26 How often did you experience sickening pain? 0.10 0.56 0.13 0.18 −0.06 −0.07
PAINQU28 How often did your pain feel intolerable? 0.43 0.52 −0.01 0.05 0.02 −0.16
PAINQU9 How often did you experience freezing pain? −0.19 0.52 0.29 −0.02 −0.02 0.12
PAINQU32 How intense was your tingling pain? 0.22 −0.05 0.65 0.21 −0.06 −0.06
PAINQU27 How intense was your numb pain? 0.18 0.05 0.58 0.08 −0.09 0.01
PAINQU31 How intense was your pricking pain? −0.12 0.04 0.53 −0.03 0.24 0.29
PAINQU41 How intense was your stinging pain? −0.03 0.16 0.47 −0.10 0.24 0.15
PAINQU13 How intense was your itchy pain? −0.01 −0.04 0.45 0.14 −0.01 −0.07
PAINQU22 How often did you experience burning pain? 0.19 0.28 0.45 −0.08 0.06 −0.06
PAINQU35 How intense was your hot pain? 0.03 0.13 0.33 0.13 0.13 0.01
PAINQU30 How intense was your pulsing pain? 0.03 −0.04 0.07 0.71 0.13 −0.02
PAINQU46 How intense was your pounding pain? −0.03 0.11 0.07 0.65 0.07 −0.00
PAINQU39 How intense was your throbbing pain? 0.25 0.01 0.18 0.53 0.00 −0.04
PAINQU52 How intense was your splitting pain? −0.02 0.17 0.05 0.44 0.12 0.12
PAINQU37 How intense was your squeezing pain? −0.00 0.21 0.12 0.40 −0.10 0.25
PAINQU48 How intense was your pressing pain? 0.13 0.19 0.02 0.32 −0.07 0.25
PAINQU10 How intense was your stabbing pain? 0.05 0.06 0.00 0.08 0.80 −0.06
PAINQU24 How intense was your piercing pain? −0.01 −0.01 0.01 0.13 0.69 0.04
PAINQU36 How intense was your sharp pain? 0.29 0.09 0.04 −0.03 0.59 −0.03
PAINQU51 How intense was your shooting pain? 0.17 0.13 0.05 0.01 0.53 0.04
PAINQU11 How intense was your pulling pain? 0.23 −0.05 −0.11 −0.02 −0.00 0.78
PAINQU18 How intense was your tugging pain? 0.04 −0.03 0.11 0.05 −0.01 0.68
PAINQU2 How intense was your cool pain? −0.13 0.17 0.09 0.12 0.01 0.34
PAINQU23 How intense was your heavy pain? 0.25 0.23 −0.17 0.22 0.03 0.30