Item Banks for Measuring Emotional Distress From the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®): Depression, Anxiety, and Anger

By P. Pilkonis, Seung W. Choi, S. Reise, Angela Stover, William T Riley, D. Cella. Assessment (Odessa, Fla.), 2011

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The authors report on the development and calibration of item banks for depression, anxiety, and anger as part of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®). Comprehensive literature searches yielded an initial bank of 1,404 items from 305 instruments. After qualitative item analysis (including focus groups and cognitive interviewing), 168 items (56 for each construct) were written in a first person, past tense format with a 7-day time frame and five response options reflecting frequency. The calibration sample included nearly 15,000 respondents. Final banks of 28, 29, and 29 items were calibrated for depression, anxiety, and anger, respectively, using item response theory. Test information curves showed that the PROMIS item banks provided more information than conventional measures in a range of severity from approximately −1 to +3 standard deviations (with higher scores indicating greater distress). Short forms consisting of seven to eight items provided information comparable to legacy measures containing more items.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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lordif: An R Package for Detecting Differential Item Functioning Using Iterative Hybrid Ordinal Logistic Regression/Item Response Theory and Monte Carlo Simulations (2011, methodology): “We analyzed a dataset (N = 766) on a 29-item anxiety bank (Pilkonis et al. 2011, see appendix) for DIF related to age using data from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS).”
Goodness-of-Fit Assessment of Item Response Theory Models (2013, methodology): “To illustrate the procedures described above, I use the n = 7 item PROMIS anxiety short form (Pilkonis et al., 2011).”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, positive): “…in a self-guided online format and tested whether learning the positive coping skills helped people manage the stress of the pandemic as indicated by their scores on PROMIS computer adaptive tests for depression and anxiety (Pilkonis et al., 2011) and positive affect (Salsman et al., 2014).”
Constructing Validity: New Developments in Creating Objective Measuring Instruments (2019, background): “Although these scales display some exemplary qualities and compare favorably in many ways to more traditional indicators of these constructs, the depression and anxiety trait scores correlated .81 with one another (Pilkonis et al., 2011).”