Development and early validation of a patient-reported outcome measure to assess sleep amongst people experiencing problems with alcohol or other drugs.

ABSTRACT: To develop a patient-reported outcome measure to assess sleep amongst people experiencing problems with alcohol or other drugs. Item development included secondary analyses of qualitative interviews with drug or alcohol users in residential treatment, a review of validated sleep measures, focus groups with drug or alcohol users in residential treatment, and feedback from drug or alcohol users recruited from community and residential settings. An initial version of the measure was completed by 549 current and former drug or alcohol users (442 in person and 107 online). Analyses comprised classical test theory methods, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, measurement invariance assessment, and item response theory (IRT). The initial measure (30 items) had good content and face valid

SUBMITTER: Neale J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6018897 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature