Research Article
Validity, Reliability, and Responsiveness of the Brief Pain Inventory in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Table 5
Known group validation of BPI scores according to self-assessed symptom burden at baseline.
| | | Ulcerative colitis () | | | BPI intensity | BPI interference |
| | IBD symptoms | | | | No () | 3.5 (5.3) | 3.9 (6.8) | | Mild () | 7.6 (6.5) | 12.6 (14.4) | | Moderate () | 8.5 (7.2) | 15.5 (15.4) | | Severe () | 15.3 (8.5) | 27.9 (14.7) |
| | | Crohn’s disease () | | | BPI intensity | BPI interference |
| | IBD symptoms | | | | No () | 3.7 (4.9) | 4.4 (7.9) | | Mild () | 6.2 (5.5) | 9.9 (13.2) | | Moderate () | 9.7 (6.4) | 18.9 (15.8) | | Severe () | 10.0 (7.3) | 22.3 (17.5) |
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BPI: brief pain inventory, IBD: inflammatory bowel disease.
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