1. Psychometric properties of the PROMIS short form measures in a U.S. cohort of 961 patients with chronic hepatitis C prescribed direct acting antiviral therapy
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Evon, DM, Amador, J, Stewart, P, Reeve, BB, Lok, AS, Sterling, RK, Di Bisceglie, AM, Reau, N, Serper, M, Sarkar, S, Lim, JK, Golin, CE, and Fried, MW
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Clinical Sciences ,Hepatitis ,Digestive Diseases ,Liver Disease ,Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis ,Hepatitis - C ,Emerging Infectious Diseases ,Clinical Research ,Infectious Diseases ,Good Health and Well Being ,Adult ,Aged ,Aged ,80 and over ,Antiviral Agents ,Cohort Studies ,Comorbidity ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Female ,Forms as Topic ,Hepatitis C ,Chronic ,Humans ,Liver Cirrhosis ,Male ,Middle Aged ,Pain Management ,Patient Reported Outcome Measures ,Psychometrics ,Reproducibility of Results ,United States ,Young Adult ,Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences ,Gastroenterology & Hepatology ,Clinical sciences ,Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences - Abstract
BackgroundTo better understand symptoms experienced by patients infected with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), valid and reliable patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are needed.AimTo assess the reliability and validity of 10 patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) measures and the Headache Impact Test-6 (HIT-6) in a large national sample of patients with HCV.MethodsPre-treatment data from 961 patients with HCV starting direct acting antiviral therapy at 11 U.S. liver centers were analyzed. Internal reliability was evaluated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient; frequency distributions were examined for floor and ceiling effects; structural validity was investigated via item-response-theory models; convergent validity was evaluated using correlations with theoretically-similar items from the HCV-PRO and memorial symptom assessment scale (MSAS); and known-groups validity was investigated by observing PRO differences by liver disease status and number of comorbidities.ResultsThe HIT-6 and the majority of the PROMIS measures yielded excellent reliability (alphas ≥ 0.87). Ceiling effects were infrequent (
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- 2018