Simple pain measures reveal psycho-social pathology in patients with Crohn’s disease

Table 1 Details of pain questions and scoring¹

Questionnaire	Question about pain	Score in questionnaire	Recoded score
Patient Harvey-Bradshaw Index	Did you have abdominal pains yesterday?	0 None	0
		1 Mild	1
		2 Moderate	2
		3 Severe	3
MOS Short-Form Survey Instrument	How much bodily pain have you had during the past 4 wk?	1 None	0
		2 Very Mild	0
		3 Mild	1
		4 Moderate	1
		5 Severe	2
		6 Very Severe	3
Short Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire	How often during the past 2 wk have you been troubled by pain in the abdomen?	1 All of the time	3
		2 Most of the time	2
		3 A good bit of the time	2
		4 Some of the time	1
		5 A little of the time	1
		6 Hardly any of the time	0
		7 None of the time	0

¹Pain questions in the three questionnaires with original scoring, and the recoded scores used in the analysis.