Measurement property | Measure(s) of effect |
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Self-reported outcome measurement development | Concept elicitation: sample size (evaluated based on COSMIN guidelines) [20, 22] |
Cognitive interview study: number of patients per item | |
Comprehensiveness: number of patients per item | |
Content validity | Relevance (patients): number of patients per item |
Comprehensiveness (patient): number of patients per item | |
Comprehensibility (patient): number of patients per item | |
Relevance (professionals): number of professionals per item | |
Structural validity | Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) |
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) | |
Internal consistency | Continuous scores: Cronbach’s alpha or omega |
Dichotomous scores: Cronbach’s alpha or KR-20 | |
Item response theory (IRT)-based scores: SE (θ) or reliability coefficient | |
Reliability | Continuous scores: intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) |
Dichotomous/nominal/ordinal scores: kappa, weighted kappa (ordinal scores) | |
Cross-cultural validity | Whether the PROM shows similar structural validity and reliability when validated in another cultural context or translated to another language |