Paul A. Pilkonis|Seung W. Choi|Steven P. Reise|Angela M. Stover|William T. Riley|David Cella
Item Banks for Measuring Emotional Distress From the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®): Depression, Anxiety, and Anger
University of Pittsburgh|Northwestern University|University of California, Los Angeles|University of Pittsburgh|National Institutes of Health|Northwestern University
authors report development calibration item banks depression anxiety anger part patientreported outcomes measurement information system promis comprehensive literature searches yielded initial bank 1404 items 305 instruments qualitative item analysis including focus groups cognitive interviewing 168 items 56 construct written first person past tense format 7day time frame five response options reflecting frequency calibration sample included nearly 15000 respondents final banks 28 29 29 items calibrated depression anxiety anger respectively using item response theory test information curves showed promis item banks provided information conventional measures range severity approximately 1 3 standard deviations higher scores indicating greater distress short forms consisting seven eight items provided information comparable legacy measures containing items