BODY-Q Normative Scores: Psychometric Validation of the BODY-Q in the General Population in Europe and North America.

ABSTRACT:

Background

BODY-Q is a rigorously developed patient-reported outcome measure designed to measure outcomes of weight loss and body contouring patients. To allow interpretation and comparison of BODY-Q scores across studies, normative BODY-Q values were generated from the general population. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of BODY-Q in the normative population.

Methods

Data were collected using two crowdsourcing platforms (Prolific and Amazon Mechanical Turk) in 12 European and North American countries. Rasch measurement theory (RMT) was used to examine reliability and validity of BODY-Q scales.

Results

RMT analysis supported the psychometric properties of BODY-Q in the normative sample with ordered thresholds in all items and nonsignifi

SUBMITTER: Dalaei F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10653602 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature