Development of Reporting Guidelines for Psychometric Research on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures [Methods Study], United States, 2017-2024 (ICPSR 39632)
Version Date: Dec 10, 2025 View help for published
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Joel J. Gagnier, University of Michigan
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39632.v1
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Patient-reported outcome measures, or PROMs, are surveys that ask patients how they feel and what activities they can do. All PROMs have measurement properties. These properties help researchers understand how well the PROM was designed. For example, one property is the ability to get consistent responses over time. Another is how accurately the PROM measures how patients feel about a health problem. But researchers may not consistently report these properties in studies about PROMs.
In this study, the research team created guidance about reporting measurement properties in studies on PROM.
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To develop a set of reporting recommendations for studies examining PROM measurement properties
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First, the research team reviewed the methods for reporting PROM measurement properties in 1,658 studies. From these studies, the team created 127 reporting recommendations for PROM measurement properties and grouped these recommendations into two sets. One set included common recommendation items relevant to any study of measurement properties, and the other set was specific to nine reliability- and validity-related measurement properties.
Second, the research team recruited a group of 47 individuals who they considered to be experts in PROM development due to having published one of the following:
- Reporting guidelines for measurement property studies of PROMs
- Manuals on psychometrics or measurement
- Systematic reviews of methods or reporting of measurement studies of PROMs
- Reporting guidelines for clinical research
The research team then conducted three Delphi rounds with these experts. In the first round, the team sent the group an online survey. Participants rated the importance of each reporting recommendation on a 5-point scale and suggested additional reporting recommendations. The team deemed recommendations to be important if 70% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that the items were important. In the next two rounds, the team presented revised versions of the items that had less than 70% participant agreement in the previous rounds.
The Delphi panel achieved consensus on a final set of 71 reporting recommendations separated into 35 common recommendations relevant to all studies on measurement properties 36 specific recommendations relevant to one of the nine measurement properties: reliability, measurement error, internal consistency, content validity, face validity, construct validity, criterion validity, responsiveness, and interpretability.
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Experts in patient-reported outcome measures development
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Published and unpublished literature on guidance or reporting for PROM measurement properties; surveys of panelists with experience in PROM development methodology
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