Self-Report Outcome Measures Flashcards
Assessment of _____ provide indications of progress over an episode of care.
outcomes
Outcome measures benchmark the ____ of physical therapists services for specific conditions.
quality
This refers to the PT’s objective examination.
Performance-based measures
This refers to the patient’s perception of his or her status.
Self-report measures
T or F
Fear Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) is a type of performance based outcome measure that measures fear of pain and resulting avoidance of physical activity.
F (self-report, condition specific)
Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) is a type of self-report outcome measure (______).
body region specific
Studies pertaining to any type of measure.
Methodologic research (nonexperimental design)
What is the goal of methodologic research?
Document how an instrument was developed and/or establish its measurement properties
Used to describe the measurement characteristics of surveys or other indexes used to obtain
individuals’ perspectives about an aspect (or aspects) of their condition or situation.
Standard error of measurement
Self-report outcome measures are also known as?
Patient reported outcomes (PROs)
Appraisal of PROs are done through?
Instrument development and performance
This is the first question to be answered in appraising PROs.
Did the investigators provide an adequate description of the survey development process, including identification of participants and methods for item development and selection?
What factors pertain to person-level outcomes?
Disability, health status, and health-related quality of life
Person-level outcomes include?
Disability, health status, and health-related quality of life
T or F
In self-reported outcome measures, the instrument scope should also be described.
T
____ should describe characteristics of participants and criteria used.
Investigators
Style of ____ should be reported.
question
T or F
The type and method for scoring individual items, subsets of items (subscales), and the entire instrument is not necessarily described.
F (should be described)
T or F
The type and method for scoring individual items, subsets of items (subscales), and the entire instrument is not necessarily described.
F (should be described)
This is the second question to be answered in appraising PROs.
Is the self-report instrument of interest easy to administer?
Balance the need for ____ of the phenomenon
with the practical realities of the clinical environment.
adequate measurement
The comprehension level needed to understand the questions should be as accessible as possible to the widest range of individual ____.
cognitive abilities
T or F
One of the guide questions to determine the eligibility of the PRO is the resources required to complete the instrument.
T
T or F
One of the guide questions to determine the eligibility of the PRO is the resources required to complete the instrument.
T
T or F
A self report instrument is considered easy to administer if there are required administrative demands.
T
#3 Is the self-report instrument of interest \_\_\_\_?
reliable
This reflects the degree to which subsections of a survey measure the same concept or construct (highly correlated).
Internal consistency
This reflects the stability of repeated scores from (3)
respondents presumed to be unchanged over a specified period of time.
Reproducibility:
Indicates how close repeated measures are to one another.
Agreement
T or F
A detailed description of the methods used, characteristics of subjects and conditions under which they were tested is needed for the PROs to be considered reliable.
T
#4 Is the self-report instrument of interest \_\_\_?
valid
This is the degree to which items in an instrument represent all of the facets of the variable being measured. (e.g. content experts such as clinicians, patients, caregivers or combination to help develop and/or comment)
Content validity
This is the degree to which a measure matches the operational definition of the concept or construct it is said to represent. (e.g. vis-a-vis discriminant validity)
Construct validity
The degree to which a measure of interest relates to an external criterion measure. (e.g. gold standard or reference standard)
Criterion validity
