Measuring PROMIS® Emotional Distress in Early Childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Create and validate developmentally sensitive parent-report measures of emotional distress for children ages 1-5 years that conceptually align with the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) pediatric measures.

Methods

Initial items were generated based on expert and parent input regarding core components of emotional distress in early childhood and review of theoretical and empirical work in this domain. Items were psychometrically tested using data from two waves of panel surveys. Item response theory (IRT) was applied to develop item calibration parameters (Wave 1), and scores were centered on a general U.S. population sample (Wave 2). Final PROMIS early childhood (EC) instruments were compared with existing measures of related constru

SUBMITTER: Sherlock P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113325 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature