SynthesisPloS one2016
PRISM, a Novel Visual Metaphor Measuring Personally Salient Appraisals, Attitudes and Decision-Making: Qualitative Evidence Synthesis.
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- Comparison of PRISM and numeric scale for self-assessment of learning progress during a clinical course in undergraduate dental students.BMC medical education · 2022Trial
- A Visual Metaphor for Oral Health Education in Hemodialysis Patients: A Pilot Study.Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric DentistryTrial
- Psychosomatic profile in patients with systemic sclerosis: results from an observational study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Illustration of self-perceived knowledge, skills, and interests in undergraduate dental students using a visual metaphor- results of a monocentric cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Disease activity, burden and suffering in patients with ulcerative colitis in the UK cohort recruited into the global ICONIC study.Frontline gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Development of a visual tool to assess six dimensions of health and its validation in patients with endocrine disorders.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2022Article
- Pilot study to evaluate a novel measure of self-perceived competencies among dental students.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self-Measure) as Visual Tool to Support Oral Health Education Prior to Endoprosthetic Joint Replacement-A Novel Approach in Dentistry.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Measuring perception of mental well-being in patients under isolation precautions: a prospective comparative study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Risk Perception of Natural and Human-Made Disasters-Cross Sectional Study in Eight Countries in Europe and Beyond.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Lay causal beliefs about PTSD and cultural correlates in five countries.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
- PRISM: A Novel Visual Instrument to Facilitate Self-Reflection and Learning Progress in Undergraduate Dental Education.BioMed research international · 2022Article
- The effectiveness of Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) for the assessment of the suffering and quality of interpersonal relationships of patients with chronic pain.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2021Article
- A Mixed-Methods Investigation into Patients' Decisions to Attend an Emergency Department for Chronic Pain.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Influence of weekday of admission and level of distress on length of hospital stay in patients with low back pain: a retrospective cohort study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- A Global, Prospective, Observational Study Measuring Disease Burden and Suffering in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis Using the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self-Measure Tool.Journal of Crohn's & colitis · 2021Article
- Recognising ethnocultural diversity in chronic pain assessment: validation of the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) for use with culturally diverse communities.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2019Article
- Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM): A Novel Visual Instrument to Quantify Suffering in Liver Cirrhosis Patients and Liver Transplant Recipients.Annals of transplantation · 2018Article
- A Measure of Suffering in relation to Anxiety and Quality of Life in IBS Patients: Preliminary Results.BioMed research international · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundPRISM (the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) is a novel, simple visual instrument. Its utility was initially discovered serendipitously, but has been validated as a quantitative measure of suffering. Recently, new applications for different purposes, even in non-health settings, have encouraged further exploration of how PRISM works, and how it might be applied. This review will summarise the results to date from applications of PRISM and propose a generic conceptualisation of how PRISM works which is consistent with all these applications.
methodsA systematic review, in the form of a qualitative evidence synthesis, was carried out of all available published data on PRISM.
resultsFifty-two publications were identified, with a total of 8254 participants. Facilitated by simple instructions, PRISM has been used with patient groups in a variety of settings and cultures. As a measure of suffering, PRISM has, with few exceptions, behaved as expected according to Eric Cassell's seminal conceptualisation of suffering. PRISM has also been used to assess beliefs about or attitudes to stressful working conditions, interpersonal relations, alcohol consumption, and suicide, amongst others. DISCUSSION: This review supports PRISM behaving as a visual metaphor of the relationship of objects (eg 'my illness') to a subject (eg 'myself') in a defined context (eg 'my life at the moment'). As a visual metaphor, it is quick to complete and yields personally salient information. PRISM is likely to have wide applications in assessing beliefs, attitudes, and decision-making, because of its properties, and because it yields both quantitative and qualitative data. In medicine, it can serve as a generic patient-reported outcome measure. It can serve as a tool for representational guidance, can be applied to developing strategies visually, and is likely to have applications in coaching, psychological assessment and therapeutic interventions.
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