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ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2017

Do measures of depressive symptoms function differently in people with spinal cord injury versus primary care patients: the CES-D, PHQ-9, and PROMIS

Karon F Cook, Michael A Kallen, Charles Bombardier, Alyssa M Bamer, Seung W Choi, Jiseon Kim, Rana Salem, Dagmar Amtmann

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Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Karon F CookDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. karon.cook@northwestern.edu.
Michael A KallenDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Charles BombardierDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Alyssa M BamerDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Seung W ChoiData Recognition Corporation | CTB, Monterey, CA, USA.
Jiseon KimDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Rana SalemDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Dagmar AmtmannDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Funding

UW Center on Outcomes Research in Rehabilitation(RMI)U01AR052171 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI AMTMANN, DAGMAR · 2004 to 2008
$5.0M
Impact of Somatic & Cognitive Symptoms on Depression Measures in MS, TBI, & SCIR03HS020700 · AHRQ · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI COOK, KARON F · 2011 to 2011
$100k
AHRQ HHS R03 HS020700NIAMS NIH HHS U01 AR052171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo evaluate whether items of three measures of depressive symptoms function differently in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) than in persons from a primary care sample.

methodsThis study was a retrospective analysis of responses to the Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale, the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale, and the National Institutes of Health Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS

resultsNo items of any of the three target measures were flagged for DIF based on standard criteria. In a follow-up sensitivity analyses, the criterion was changed to make the analysis more sensitive to potential DIF. Scores were corrected for DIF flagged under this criterion. Minimal differences were found between the original scores and those corrected for DIF under the sensitivity criterion.

conclusionsThe three depression screening measures evaluated in this study did not perform differently in samples of individuals with SCI compared to general and community samples. Transdiagnostic symptoms did not appear to spuriously inflate depression severity estimates when administered to people with SCI.

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Sickness Impact ProfileDepressionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrimary Health CarePsychiatric Status Rating ScalesRetrospective StudiesSpinal Cord InjuriesDepressionDiagnosisDifferential item functionMeasurement invariancePsychometricsRehabilitationScreeningSpinal cord injuries

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