Psychometric Properties of a Healthcare Provider Burden Scale: Preliminary Results.

Measures are lacking that assess the clinical burden that healthcare providers perceive in treating chronic conditions. This study presents a preliminary psychometric evaluation of a novel self-report measure of provider burden in the treatment of chronic pain. Data for eight burden items were available from vignette studies examining the effects of patient pain severity and medical evidence on clinical burden and judgments for chronic pain.

Community Perspectives on Patient Credibility and Provider Burden in the Treatment of Chronic Pain.

Objective: This study examined factors influencing lay perceptions of a provider's clinical burden in providing care to a person with chronic pain.

Design: In a between-subjects design that varied three levels of pain severity (4, 6, or 8 out of 10) with two levels of medical evidence (low/high), participants rated the credibility of pain reported by a hypothetical patient and the psychosocial factors expected to mediate the effects of evidence and severity on a provider's burden of care.

Setting: A randomized vignette study in which community participants were recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk.

A Preliminary Study of Provider Burden in the Treatment of Chronic Pain: Perspectives of Physicians and People with Chronic Pain.

This study compared perceptions of the burden of patient care and associated clinical judgments between physicians and people with chronic pain (PWCP) in a 2 × 3 × 2 between-subjects design that varied participant type, patient-reported pain severity (4/6-8/10), and supporting medical evidence (low/high). One hundred and nine physicians and 476 American Chronic Pain Association members were randomly assigned to 1 of 6 conditions. Respondents estimated the clinical burden they would assume as the treating physician of a hypothetical patient with chronic low back pain, and made clinical judgments regarding that patient.