Surgical Pain After Inguinal Hernia Repair (SPAIHR)

NRS: a self-administered questionnaire to rate pain. A single item asks to rate pain with movement caused by sitting (sitting in a standardized fashion after being in a fully supine position); range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).

NRS: a self-administered questionnaire to rate pain. A single item asks to rate pain with movement caused by walking (rising from sitting position and walking approximately 5 meters or 16 feet at a moderate pace); range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).

NRS: a self-administered questionnaire to rate pain. A single item asks to rate pain with movement caused by coughing (coughing two times while sitting); range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain)

NRS: a self-administered questionnaire to rate pain. AUC from 1 h PS through 48 h PS for ratings of pain caused by movements of sitting, walking, and coughing; Range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).

NRS: a self-administered questionnaire to rate pain. A single item asks participant to rate current pain at rest (preceding pain with movement); range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).

NRS: a self-administered questionnaire to rate pain. AUC for a single item asking participant to rate current pain at rest (preceding pain with movement); range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).

NRS: a self-administered questionnaire to rate pain. A single item asks participant to rate pain on average in the last 24 hours; range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain).

Rescue medication includes both naproxen and narcotic medication (including tramadol and opioid analgesics). For subjects without use of rescue medication, the time-to-event variable is censored at the Beginning of Taper Visit (Day 7 PS) or at time of withdrawal.

PADS is a 5-item scale (individual item range: 0-2; higher scores indicating better readiness for hospital discharge). Total score range: 0-10, with 9 or higher indicating eligibility for discharge. End of surgery is time of transfer to post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). Subjects who did not reach a score of 9 on PADS were censored at the date and time of discharge.

DSIRS: self-administered 11-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (pain does not interfere with sleep) to 10 (pain completely interferes with sleep [unable to sleep due to pain]) during past 24-hour period. Higher score indicates a greater level of sleep disturbance. Performed daily on awakening, prior to taking study medication.

Total cumulative dose of opioids and tramadol administered by any route during surgery and postoperatively. Dose of tramadol calculated as milligrams (mg) of oral morphine equivalent.

Total cumulative dose of naproxen calculated in milligrams (mg) from the end of surgery up to and including Day 7 after surgery.

OR-SDS: a self-administered assessment of 10 common opioid-related side effects (symptoms). A CME is a severe or very severe symptom (or moderate or greater severity symptom of confusion). The Total Distinct CME score is the sum of CMEs across symptoms (range: 0 [none] to 10 [10 CMEs]); the Cumulative Total Distinct (CT Distinct) CME score is the sum of Total Distinct CME scores at observation and prior observations. The Total CME score is the same as the Total Distinct CME score except that only 1 CME is counted if both nausea and vomiting (or retching) occur (range: 0 [none] to 9 [9 CMEs]).

OR-SDS: a self-administered assessment of 10 common opioid-related side effects (symptoms). A CME is a severe or very severe symptom (or moderate or greater severity symptom of confusion). For individual symptom categories, the number of subjects who experienced at least one CME. Concentrate (concentr).

GESM is a self-administered overall impression (global evaluation) of study medication received for pain; 4 categories: poor, fair, good, and excellent.

Investigator-assigned mutually exclusive categories of: 1) no surgical wound complication, 2) superficial incisional surgical site infection, 3) deep incisional surgical site infection, 4) organ or space surgical site infection, or 5) non-infectious wound healing complication.

Number of participants who answered "yes" to the Post-Surgery Contact question: "From the time you were discharged from the hospital, did you have to contact any type of physician because of pain, difficulty getting up and walking about, or difficulty with passing urine?"

Anxiety VAS is a single-item self-administered continuous measure of anxiety using a 100-millimeter (mm) line on which the subject is asked to place a mark indicating the intensity of current anxiety. The score is the distance in mm from the left-most point on the line to the subject's mark; range: 0 (Not at all anxious) at the left-most point to 100 (Extremely anxious) at the right-most point. Performed prior to blood draws.

EQ-5D is a self-administered questionnaire to assess health-related quality of life in 5 domains (mobility, self care, usual activities, pain or discomfort, and anxiety or depression). Scores from the 5 domains are used to calculate a single index value: the Health State Profile Score; range: 0.0 (death) to 1.0 (perfect health), higher scores indicating better health state.

The PCS is a self-administered questionnaire with 13 items, each scored from 0 (not at all) to 4 (all the time) for extent to which participant catastrophizes postoperative pain. Total score is sum of scores for all questions (range: 0 to 52); Subscale scores: Rumination (sum of scores for 4 items; range: 0 to 16); Magnification (sum of scores for 3 items; range: 0 to 12); and Helplessness (sum of scores for 6 items; range: 0 to 24); higher scores mean a greater extent of pain catastrophizing.

The PCS is a self-administered questionnaire with 13 items, each scored from 0 (not at all) to 4 (all the time) for extent to which participant catastrophizes postoperative pain. Total score is sum of scores for all items (range: 0 to 52); higher scores mean a greater extent of pain catastrophizing.

PCSS and MCSS are component summary scores from the self-administered SF-12v2 acute health quality of life, norm-based survey. PCSS range: 4.95 to 76.13; MCSS range: -0.79 to 79.69; lowest scores mean very much below and highest scores mean very much above the general population average.

Number of participants who reported surgery-related pain at assessment (by answering 'yes' to a single question: "In the last 24 hours, have you had pain in the area affected by your surgery?")

m-BPI-sf: a self-administered 11-point Likert rating scale to rate pain in the past 24 hours. Pain interference index score is mean of 7 individual item scores for interference of pain with functional activities (general activity, mood, walking ability, relations with other people, sleep, normal work, and enjoyment of life); range: 0 (does not interfere) to 10 (completely interferes with functional activities). Pain severity index score is mean of 4 individual item scores for pain severity (pain right now, and worst, least, and average pain); range: 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst imaginable pain).

NPSI: a 12-item self-administered questionnaire to assess the characteristics of neuropathic pain on average in the last 24 hours. 5 subscale scores include: burning spontaneous (spont.) pain, pressing spont. pain, paroxysmal pain, evoked pain, and paresthesia or dysesthesia (paresth/dysesth) (range: 0 [no pain] to 10 [worst pain imaginable]); total score calculated from the 5 pain subscores (range: 0 to 0.5), higher scores meaning worse pain.