ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2018
Negligible impact of differential item functioning between Black and White dialysis patients on the Kidney Disease Quality of Life 36-item short form survey (KDQOL
Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Problems with analyses and interpretation of data in "use of the KDQOL-36™ for assessment of health-related quality of life among dialysis patients in the United States".BMC nephrology · 2019Article
- Differential item functioning of the CAHPS® In-Center Hemodialysis Survey.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Kidney Disease Quality of Life 36-Item Short Form Survey (KDQOL-36) Normative Values for the United States Dialysis Population and New Single Summary Score.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeBlack dialysis patients report better health-related quality of life (HRQOL) than White patients, which may be explained if Black and White patients respond systematically differently to HRQOL survey items.
methodsWe examined differential item functioning (DIF) of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life 36-item (KDQOL
resultsΔCFI was 0.006 between the metric and scalar models but was reduced to 0.001 when we freed intercepts for the burdens and symptoms and problems of kidney disease scales. In comparison to standardized means of 0 in the White group, those for the Black group on the Burdens, Symptoms and Problems, and Effects of Kidney Disease scales were 0.218, 0.061, and 0.161, respectively. When loadings and thresholds were released sequentially, differences in means between models ranged between 0.001 and 0.048.
conclusionDespite some DIF, impacts on KDQOL
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