Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairments.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

To develop an archive of self-report questions assessing sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairments (SRI), to develop item banks from this archive, and to validate and calibrate the item banks using classic validation techniques and item response theory analyses in a sample of clinical and community participants.

Design

Cross-sectional self-report study.

Setting

Academic medical center and participant homes.

Participants

One thousand nine hundred ninety-three adults recruited from an Internet polling sample and 259 adults recruited from medical, psychiatric, and sleep clinics.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and results

This study was part of PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcomes Information System), a National Institutes of Hea

SUBMITTER: Buysse DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2880437 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature