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The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI): establishing clinically-significant values for identifying central sensitivity syndromes in an outpatient chronic pain sample
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Unlabelled Central sensitization (CS) is a proposed physiological phenomenon in which central nervous system neurons become hyperexcitable, resulting in hypersensitivity to both noxious and non-noxious stimuli. The term central sensitivity syndrome (CSS) describes a group of medically indistinct (or nonspecific) disorders, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and irritable bowel syndrome, for which CS may be a common etiology. In a previous study, the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI) was introduced as a screening instrument for clinicians to help identify patients with a CSS. It was found to have high reliability and validity (test-retest reliability = .82; Cronbach's alpha = .88). The present study investigated a cohort of 121 patients who were referred to a multidisciplinary pain center, which specializes in the assessment and treatment of complex pain and psychophysiological disorders, including CSSs. A large percentage of patients (n = 89, 74%) met clinical criteria for one or more CSSs, and CSI scores were positively correlated with the number of diagnosed CSSs. A receiver operating characteristic analysis determined that a CSI score of 40 out of 100 best distinguished between the CSS patient group and a nonpatient comparison sample (N = 129) (area under the curve = .86, sensitivity = 81%, specificity = 75%).Perspective The CSI is a new self-report screening instrument to help identify patients with CSSs, including fibromyalgia. The present study investigated CSI scores in a heterogeneous pain population with a large percentage of CSSs, and a normative nonclinical sample to determine a clinically relevant cutoff value.
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“The Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI) 26 is designed to evaluate central sensitization in patients with chronic pain.”
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“CS has been described as heightened neural signaling within the central nervous system, leading to increased sensitivity to pain, which can be directly assessed in clinical practice using the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI) (Neblett et al. 2013).”
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“54 The higher the score, the more severe the somatic and emotional symptoms common to CS.”
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“The symptoms associated with central sensitization syndrome were assessed using the Spanish version of the Central Sensitization Inventory (Cuesta-Vargas et al., 2016), which has an internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) of .88 (Neblett et al., 2013).”
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“The step height used was based on each patient’s height: 15.2 cm for heights<163 cm, 20.3 cm for heights 163–180 cm, and 25.4 cm for heights >180 cm.”
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“…analysis purposes, on the basis that different levels of measures can be used when interpreting CSI-scores: continuous, binary, and categorical (Neblett et al., 2013, 2017; Scerbo et al., 2018), we chose not to dichot-omize the continuous data, in accordance with Royston, Altman, and Sauerbrei…”
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Acceptance and commitment therapy for prevention of chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Neblett, R., Cohen, H., Choi, Y., Hartzell, M. M., Williams, M., Mayer, T. G., & Gatchel, R. J.
- Affiliations
- Productive Rehabilitation Institute of Dallas for Ergonomics (US)
- The University of Texas at Arlington (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mayer, Tom G.
- Venue
- The Journal of Pain
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-05
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 438-445
- ISSN
- 1526-5900 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3644381
- OpenAlex
- W1976214008
- Cited by
- 757
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 90 · 2025: 88 · 2024: 82 · 2023: 99 · 2022: 87 · 2021: 83 · 2020: 58 · 2019: 49 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 11.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Pain (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Public Health Service (1UO1 DEO10713-12A2)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (U01DE010713)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Keywords
- Central Sensitization Inventory, central sensitization, central sensitivity syndromes, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, screening tool, cut-off values, receiver operating characteristic, reference values, multidisciplinary pain center, complex pain
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Fibromyalgia, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Outpatients, ROC Curve, Sensitivity and Specificity, Cohort Studies, Young Adult, Central Nervous System Sensitization, Chronic Pain
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