TY - JOUR
T1 - Content Validity of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Developed for Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
T2 - a Systematic Review
AU - Terwee, Caroline B.
AU - Elders, Petra J. M.
AU - Langendoen-Gort, Marlous
AU - Elsman, Ellen B. M.
AU - Prinsen, Cecilia A. C.
AU - van der Heijden, Amber A.
AU - de Wit, Maartje
AU - Beulens, Joline W. J.
AU - Mokkink, Lidwine B.
AU - Rutters, Femke
N1 - Funding Information: We would like to thank Wia Barkema, Lenka Groeneveld, Ilana Halperin, and Geetha Mukerji for their help with screening abstracts, rating papers, and finding copies of the PROMs. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Purpose of review: We aimed to systematically evaluate the content validity of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) specifically developed to measure (aspects of) health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with type 2 diabetes. A systematic review was performed in PubMed and Embase of PROMs measuring perceived symptoms, physical function, mental function, social function/participation, and general health perceptions, and that were validated to at least some extent. Content validity (relevance, comprehensiveness, and comprehensibility) was evaluated using COSMIN methodology. Recent findings: We identified 54 (different versions of) PROMs, containing 150 subscales. We found evidence for sufficient content validity for only 41/150 (27%) (subscales of) PROMs. The quality of evidence was generally very low. We found 66 out of 150 (44%) (subscales of) PROMs with evidence for either insufficient relevance, insufficient comprehensiveness, or insufficient comprehensibility. For measuring diabetes-specific symptoms, physical function, mental function, social function/participation, and general health perceptions, we identified one to 11 (subscales of) PROMs with sufficient content validity, although quality of the evidence was generally low. For measuring depressive symptoms, no PROM with sufficient content validity was identified. Summary: For each aspect of HRQL, we found at least one PROM with sufficient content validity, except for depressive symptoms. The quality of the evidence was mostly very low.
AB - Purpose of review: We aimed to systematically evaluate the content validity of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) specifically developed to measure (aspects of) health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in people with type 2 diabetes. A systematic review was performed in PubMed and Embase of PROMs measuring perceived symptoms, physical function, mental function, social function/participation, and general health perceptions, and that were validated to at least some extent. Content validity (relevance, comprehensiveness, and comprehensibility) was evaluated using COSMIN methodology. Recent findings: We identified 54 (different versions of) PROMs, containing 150 subscales. We found evidence for sufficient content validity for only 41/150 (27%) (subscales of) PROMs. The quality of evidence was generally very low. We found 66 out of 150 (44%) (subscales of) PROMs with evidence for either insufficient relevance, insufficient comprehensiveness, or insufficient comprehensibility. For measuring diabetes-specific symptoms, physical function, mental function, social function/participation, and general health perceptions, we identified one to 11 (subscales of) PROMs with sufficient content validity, although quality of the evidence was generally low. For measuring depressive symptoms, no PROM with sufficient content validity was identified. Summary: For each aspect of HRQL, we found at least one PROM with sufficient content validity, except for depressive symptoms. The quality of the evidence was mostly very low.
KW - Diabetes
KW - Patient-reported outcomes
KW - Quality of life
KW - Questionnaire
KW - Systematic review
KW - Validity
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01482-z
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-022-01482-z
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35819705
SN - 1534-4827
VL - 22
SP - 405
EP - 421
JO - Current Diabetes Reports
JF - Current Diabetes Reports
IS - 9
ER -