Development of physical and mental health summary scores from the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) global items

By R. Hays, Jakob Bjorner, Dennis A. Revicki, K. Spritzer, D. Cella. Quality of Life Research, 2009

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BackgroundThe use of global health items permits an efficient way of gathering general perceptions of health. These items provide useful summary information about health and are predictive of health care utilization and subsequent mortality.MethodsAnalyses of 10 self-reported global health items obtained from an internet survey as part of the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) project. We derived summary scores from the global health items. We estimated the associations of the summary scores with the EQ-5D index score and the PROMIS physical function, pain, fatigue, emotional distress, and social health domain scores.ResultsExploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a two-factor model. Global physical health (GPH; 4 items on overall physical health, physical function, pain, and fatigue) and global mental health (GMH; 4 items on quality of life, mental health, satisfaction with social activities, and emotional problems) scales were created. The scales had internal consistency reliability coefficients of 0.81 and 0.86, respectively. GPH correlated more strongly with the EQ-5D than did GMH (r = 0.76 vs. 0.59). GPH correlated most strongly with pain impact (r = −0.75) whereas GMH correlated most strongly with depressive symptoms (r = −0.71).ConclusionsTwo dimensions representing physical and mental health underlie the global health items in PROMIS. These global health scales can be used to efficiently summarize physical and mental health in patient-reported outcome studies.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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• Development of A Promis Item Bank to Measure Pain Interference (2010, background): “CTT provides the theoretical and mathematical bases for traditional estimates of reliability and validity [1], however, it has limited usefulness in evaluating the functioning of individual response options and how precisely items measure across the continuum of pain interference, from little to sev”
• Initial Adult Health Item Banks and First Wave Testing of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS™) Network: 2005–2008 (2010, positive): “To inform PROMIS item selection and development, we analyzed 11 large data sets with self-report data on the five broad PROMIS core domains: pain, fatigue, emotional distress, physical function, and social function [1,29,31,32].”