Capturing and missing the patient's story through outcome measures: A thematic comparison of patient-generated items in PSYCHLOPS with CORE-OM and PHQ-9.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is increasing interest in individualized patient-reported outcome measures (I-PROMS), where patients themselves indicate the specific problems they want to address in therapy and these problems are used as items within the outcome measurement tool.

Objective

This paper examined the extent to which 279 items reported in an I-PROM (PSYCHLOPS) added qualitative information which was not captured by two well-established outcome measures (CORE-OM and PHQ-9).

Design

Comparison of items was only conducted for patients scoring above the "caseness" threshold on the standardized measures.

Setting and patients

107 patients were participating in therapy within addiction and general psychiatric clinical settings.

Main results

Almost every patient (95

SUBMITTER: Sales CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5980523 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature