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Measurement invariance and general population reference values of the PROMIS Profile 29 in the UK, France, and Germany

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Purpose

Comparability of patient-reported outcome measures over different languages is essential to allow cross-national research. We investigate the comparability of the PROMIS Profile 29, a generic health-related quality of life measure, in general population samples in the UK, France, and Germany and present general population reference values.

Methods

A web-based survey was simultaneously conducted in the UK (n = 1509), France (1501), and Germany (1502). Along with the PROMIS Profile 29, we collected sociodemographic information as well as the EQ-5D. We tested measurement invariance by means of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Differences in the health-related quality of life between countries were modeled by linear regression analysis. We present general population reference data for the included PROMIS domains utilizing plausible value imputation and quantile regression.

Results

Multigroup CFA of the PROMIS Profile 29 showed that factor means are insensitive to potential measurement bias except in one item. We observed significant differences in patient-reported health between countries, which could be partially explained by the differences in overall ratings of health. The physical function and pain interference scales showed considerable floor effects in the normal population in all countries.

Conclusions

Scores derived from the PROMIS Profile 29 are largely comparable across the UK, France, and Germany. Due to the use of plausible value imputation, the presented general population reference values can be compared to data collected with other PROMIS short forms or computer-adaptive tests.

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This study was funded by the Centre Virchow-Villerme (https://virchowvillerme.eu/). We like to acknowledge the many people involved in development and translation of the PROMIS measures used in this study. Our thanks for their efforts to translate various PROMIS measures into German and French go in particular to Susan Bartlett, Marie-Eve Carrier, Erik Farin-Glattacker, Katja Heyduck, Sandra Nolte, and Inka Wahl. We thank Laurence Erdur and Nina Obbarius for their help in comparing the different language versions and Terrence Jorgensen for illuminating the pitfalls in measurement invariance testing of ordinal data. Furthermore, we would like to address special thanks to PROMIS translation manager Helena Correia.

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This study was funded by the Centre Virchow-Villerme.

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  1. Matthias Rose and Alain Leplège have contributed equally.

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  1. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Center for Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Felix Fischer & Matthias Rose

  2. The Psychometrics Centre, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Chris Gibbons

  3. APEMAC, EA 4360, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

    Joël Coste & Alain Leplège

  4. Epidemiology Unit, Hôtel Dieu, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

    Joël Coste

  5. Health Services & Policy Research Group, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Jose M. Valderas

  6. Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA

    Matthias Rose

  7. Département d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Laboratoire SPHERE, UMR 7219, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

    Alain Leplège

  8. The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Chris Gibbons

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Fischer, F., Gibbons, C., Coste, J. et al. Measurement invariance and general population reference values of the PROMIS Profile 29 in the UK, France, and Germany. Qual Life Res 27, 999–1014 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1785-8

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