Measurement Equivalence of the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System^® (PROMIS^®) Anxiety Short Forms in Ethnically Diverse Groups.

ABSTRACT: This is the first study of the measurement equivalence of the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System^® (PROMIS^®) Anxiety short forms in a large ethnically diverse sample. The psychometric properties and differential item functioning (DIF) were examined across different racial/ethnic, educational, age, gender and language groups.

Methods

These data are from individuals selected from cancer registries in the United States. For the analyses of race/ethnicity the reference group was non-Hispanic Whites (n = 2,263), the studied groups were non-Hispanic Blacks (n = 1,117), Hispanics (n = 1,043) and Asians/Pacific Islanders (n = 907). Within the Hispanic subsample, there were 335 interviews conducted in Spanish and 703 in E

SUBMITTER: Teresi JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5479355 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature