Table 2. Dimensions of pain assessed by measures: Site of pain.

Measure	Site
	Abdomen				Lower back*	Thorax		Head and Face	Generalized body	Non-specified
	General	Upper abdomen	Lower abdomen	Flank		Chest	Rib cage (behind/below)^
Established measures
SF-36 [22]c									●
VAS d,f,g,h,i,j,k,s	●			●	●					●
EQ-5D [20]d										●
GI-Q [27]t		●	●						●
KDQOL-SF [29]b,c						●			●
ADPKD-IS [24]o										●
PLD-Q [31]n	●			●	●		●
EORTC QLQ-C30 [23]d										●
BPI-SF [32]d								●		●
MPQ-DV [33]r										●
SF-MPQ-2 [34]o										●
SF-12 [18]										●
GSRS (Revised) [28]l,p		●		●	●				●
HAM-D [19]b					●			●	●
Wisconsin BPS (Revised) [6]	●				●
GI-Q (Revised for PLD) [35]		●	●
Author-developed measures
D’Agnolo 2016 [36]#!	●	●		●	●		●		●
D’Agnolo 2017 [37]!m,p
Torres 2012 [7]!	●			●	●
Torres 2011 [38]!a
Suwabe 2013 [21]p									●
Suwabe 2017 [25]q									●
Haseebuddin 2012 [39]									●
Iliuta 2019 [26]	●			●	●
Sakuhara 2015 [17]	●				●
Taylor 2005 [30]e	●			●	●			●		●
Abraham 2015 [40]									●
Walsh 2012 [41]									●

* Lower back pain was attributed to kidney pain

^ Pain behind or below the rib cage was attributed to liver pain

# Abstract

! More than one studied referred to the same publication

● Data were available for the selected field.

^a Measure reported kidney pain without other specific description. According to the definition reported in other studies, kidney pain was described as flank, back and abdominal pain

^b Generalized pain included muscle aches

^c Generalized pain included bodily pain

^d Qian 2015 [42] non-specified if VAS was a “pain specific instrument”, and no any additional information were reported about pain

^e Other pain was assessed as non-specified pain

^f Chrispijn 2013 [27] used VAS scale used to assess pain to record abdominal pain

^g Kucuk 2016 [44], Dunn 2000 [45], Lee 2003 [46], Lee 2004 [47] reported that patients had abdominal pain and flank pain. Although no further information were reported about VAS scale used to assess pain, we can assume that authors used this instrument to assess abdominal and flank pain

^h Dunn 2001 [48] reported that patients had abdominal pain. Although no further information were reported about VAS scale used to assess pain, we can assume that authors used this instrument to assess abdominal pain

ⁱ Lipke 2007 [49], Yu 2018 [50] reported that patients had kidney pain. Although no further information were reported about VAS scale used to assess pain, we can assume that authors used this instrument to assess kidney pain

^j Rehman 2001 [51] reported that patients had flank pain with or without back pain

^k Sulikowski 2006 [52] reported that patients had back and abdominal pain. Although no further information were reported about VAS scale used to assess pain, we can assume that authors used this instrument to assess abdominal and back pain

^l Upper abdomen pain included epigastric soreness and right upper abdomen quadrant pain

^m Upper abdomen pain was reported as right upper abdomen pain, behind or below the rib cage, and was attributed to liver pain

ⁿ Rib cage pain was reported as pain or pressure in the rib cage

^o Pain location was not reported

^p Generalized pain included heartburn

^q Generalized pain included bodily pain and heartburn

^r Pain location was not reported

^s VAS item with open-ended response questions vary

^t Generalized pain included heartburn and epigastric pain.