Testing measurement invariance of the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system pain behaviors score between the US general population sample and a sample of individuals with chronic pain

Hyewon Chung; Jiseon Kim; Karon F. Cook; Robert L. Askew; Dennis A. Revicki; Dagmar Amtmann

doi:10.1007/s11136-013-0463-0

Testing measurement invariance of the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system pain behaviors score between the US general population sample and a sample of individuals with chronic pain

Hyewon Chung^*, Jiseon Kim, Karon F. Cook, Robert L. Askew, Dennis A. Revicki, Dagmar Amtmann

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Purpose: In order to test the difference between group means, the construct measured must have the same meaning for all groups under investigation. This study examined the measurement invariance of responses to the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) pain behavior (PB) item bank in two samples: the PROMIS calibration sample (Wave 1, N = 426) and a sample recruited from the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA, N = 750). The ACPA data were collected to increase the number of participants with higher levels of pain. Methods: Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MG-CFA) and two item response theory (IRT)-based differential item functioning (DIF) approaches were employed to evaluate the existence of measurement invariance. Results: MG-CFA results supported metric invariance of the PROMIS-PB, indicating unstandardized factor loadings with equal across samples. DIF analyses revealed that impact of 6 DIF items was negligible. Conclusions: Based on the results of both MG-CFA and IRT-based DIF approaches, we recommend retaining the original parameter estimates obtained from the combined samples based on the results of MG-CFA.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	239-244
Number of pages	6
Journal	Quality of Life Research
Volume	23
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-013-0463-0
State	Published - Feb 2014

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Acknowledgments The project described was supported by Award Number 3U01AR052177-06S1 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases or the National Institutes of Health.

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Differential item functioning
Item response theory
Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis
Pain measurement
Patient outcome measures
Psychometrics

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Chung, H., Kim, J., Cook, K. F., Askew, R. L., Revicki, D. A., & Amtmann, D. (2014). Testing measurement invariance of the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system pain behaviors score between the US general population sample and a sample of individuals with chronic pain. Quality of Life Research, 23(1), 239-244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-013-0463-0

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Chung, H, Kim, J, Cook, KF, Askew, RL, Revicki, DA & Amtmann, D 2014, 'Testing measurement invariance of the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system pain behaviors score between the US general population sample and a sample of individuals with chronic pain', Quality of Life Research, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 239-244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-013-0463-0

Testing measurement invariance of the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system pain behaviors score between the US general population sample and a sample of individuals with chronic pain. / Chung, Hyewon; Kim, Jiseon; Cook, Karon F. et al.
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