Which test to use that includes repeated measures (pre and post) but also different treatments?

Question

Currently looking at data in which each participant recorded their level of pain from 1-10 in terms of severity for both pre and post operation, for 3 different treatments. Such as the table below, except i have 100 participants. What kind of test(s) should i use here to see if there are differences between the effectiveness of treatments?

I thought about doing the following: Independent t tests to see if there are any differences between the treatments in post pain rating. And then paired sample t tests within each treatment condition to see if those had an effect on pain, but this would inflate type 1 error. Or possibly some type of repeated measures anova?

ID	Pre	Post	Treatment
1	0	4	VR
2	3	7	VR
3	2	3	Music
4	6	8	None

Answer 1

Because the data are ordinal (1 - 10), an ordinal regression really is best.

However, depending on what you're doing you could get away with OLS. The approach here would be to use the Pre measurement as a covariate. Regress post score on pre score as well as a binary indicator for treatment. This is known as ANCOVA. You can them compare the three treatments against one another, using an appropriate contrast and p value correction.

Answer 2

I think this sounds well suited for a ordinal regression problem where you'd enter the subject ID as a covariate to control for baseline responses, and then the treatment covariate. The treatment estimate should tell you whether the treatment increased or decreased the perceived pain. If you want to use a method that is a little more efficient, use a mixed model formulation of ordinal regression with the subject ID as a random intercept.