@article{33b17a7c36db4a48be6ff5c4dddbaa25,
title = "The Development of a New Computer Adaptive Test to Evaluate Anxiety in Caregivers of Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury: TBI-CareQOL Caregiver-Specific Anxiety",
abstract = "Objective: To design a new measure of caregiver-specific anxiety for use in caregivers of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), the Traumatic Brain Injury Caregiver Quality of Life (TBI-CareQOL) Caregiver-Specific Anxiety item bank. Design: Cross-sectional survey study. Setting: Three TBI Model Systems rehabilitation hospitals, an academic medical center, and a military medical treatment facility. Participants: Three hundred forty-four caregivers of civilians with TBI and 216 caregivers of service members/veterans with TBI (N=560). Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: TBI-CareQOL Caregiver-Specific Anxiety item bank. Results: The retention of 40 Caregiver-Specific Anxiety items was supported by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Graded response model (GRM) and differential item functioning analyses supported the retention of 33 items in the final measure. Expert review and GRM calibration data was used to select a 6-item static short form, and GRM calibration data was used to program the TBI-CareQOL Caregiver-Specific Anxiety computer adaptive test (CAT). Conclusions: Established, rigorous measurement development standards were used to develop the new TBI-CareQOL Caregiver-Specific Anxiety CAT and corresponding 6-item short form. This measure is the first patient-reported outcome measure designed to assess caregiver-specific anxiety in caregivers of individuals with TBI. The measure exhibits strong psychometric properties.",
keywords = "Anxiety, Caregiver, Families of Veterans, Health-related quality of life, Patient reported outcome, Rehabilitation, Traumatic brain injury, Veterans",
author = "Carlozzi, {Noelle E.} and Kallen, {Michael A.} and Sander, {Angelle M.} and Brickell, {Tracey A.} and Lange, {Rael T.} and French, {Louis M.} and Ianni, {Phillip A.} and Miner, {Jennifer A.} and Robin Hanks",
note = "Funding Information: Supported by grant number R01NR013658 from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR000433), and the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. We thank the investigators, coordinators, and research associates/assistants who worked on this study and organizations who supported recruitment efforts. The University of Michigan Research Team would also like to thank the Hearts of Valor and the Brain Injury Association of Michigan for assistance with community outreach for recruitment efforts at this site. TBI-CareQOL site investigators and coordinators: Noelle Carlozzi, Anna Kratz, Amy Austin, Mitchell Belanger, Micah Warschausky, Siera Goodnight, Jennifer Miner (University of Michigan, Ann, Arbor, MI); Angelle Sander (Baylor College of Medicine and TIRR Memorial Hermann, Houston, TX), Curtisa Light (TIRR Memorial Hermann, Houston, TX); Robin Hanks, Daniela Ristova-Trendov (Wayne State University/Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, Detroit, MI); Nancy Chiaravalloti, Dennis Tirri, Belinda Washington (Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ); Tracey Brickell, Rael Lange, Louis French, Rachel Gartner, Megan Wright, Angela Driscoll, Diana Nora, Jamie Sullivan, Nicole Varbedian, Johanna Smith, Lauren Johnson, Heidi Mahatan, Mikelle Mooney, Mallory Frazier, Zoe Li, and Deanna Pruitt (Walter Reed National Military Medical Center/Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, Bethesda, MD). Disclosures: Noelle E. Carlozzi, Phillip A. Ianni, Angelle M. Sander, and Jennifer A. Miner report grants from National Institutes of Health during the study period. The other authors have nothing to disclose. Funding Information: Supported by grant number R01NR013658 from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR000433), and the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. We thank the investigators, coordinators, and research associates/assistants who worked on this study and organizations who supported recruitment efforts. The University of Michigan Research Team would also like to thank the Hearts of Valor and the Brain Injury Association of Michigan for assistance with community outreach for recruitment efforts at this site. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.apmr.2018.05.027",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "100",
pages = "S22--S30",
journal = "Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation",
issn = "0003-9993",
publisher = "W.B. Saunders Ltd",
number = "4",
}