Serial correlation of temporal pain intensities with beta-endorphin and meta-enkephalin concentrations, following Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation among patients with chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial

This is a dataset for the research that evaluate the responses of plasma beta-endorphin (βE), met-enkephalin (ME) and pain intensity (PI) among patients with chronic low back pain exposed to transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) = Group 1 or sham-TENS = Group 2.

The dataset codes: TENS group = 1, Sham-TENS = 2, Sex: male = 1, female = 2, Baseline = before trial, Zero_Hr = immediately after trial, One_Hr = an hour after trial, TwentyFour_Hrs = 24 hrs after trial, FortyEight_Hrs = 48 hrs after trial.

Variables labels: group, sex, age, pain duration, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), resting heart rate (RHR), body temperature (Temp), beta-endorphin (BE), meta-enkephalin (ME), pain intensity (PI) measured with numeric pain scale.

To describe time series, codes were combined with variable labels E.g. TwentyFour_Hrs_BE = bete endorphin concentration after 24 hrs of intervention.