PROMIS® Pediatric Depressive Symptoms as a Harmonized Score Metric.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To conduct an evidence-based review of adolescent self-report depression measures and to demonstrate how various measures can be rescored onto a harmonized metric.

Method

Six widely used person-reported outcome measures (PROMs) were reviewed. Psychometric properties were evaluated using previously published guidance for PROMs. Next, two secondary data sources (from an outpatient behavioral health clinic and from the general population) were evaluated to harmonize scores across three of the measures. Both item response theory and equipercentile linking methods were used and compared.

Results

All six PROMs demonstrated a high evidence base for widespread use depending on the purpose of the assessments. Adolescent involvement when developing the PROM for conten

SUBMITTER: Kaat AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7849937 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature