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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2016 Nov 4;26(5):1119–1128. doi: 10.1007/s11136-016-1450-z

Table 5.

IRT-Based Sum Score Crosswalk to the Unified Depression Metric

Sum Score ASR to PROMIS T-Score ASR to PROMIS SD BSI to PROMIS T-Score BSI to PROMIS SD Sum Score
0 36.5 6.5 38.7 6.1 0
1 40.6 5.7 45.0 4.3 1
2 43.7 5.2 48.3 3.8 2
3 46.5 4.6 50.6 3.5 3
4 48.9 4.1 52.6 3.3 4
5 51.0 3.8 54.3 3.0 5
6 52.8 3.5 55.9 2.9 6
7 54.4 3.3 57.3 2.8 7
8 56.0 3.2 58.6 2.7 8
9 57.4 3.2 59.8 2.7 9
10 58.7 3.1 61.0 2.6 10
11 60.0 3.1 62.1 2.6 11
12 61.2 3.1 63.2 2.6 12
13 62.5 3.0 64.4 2.6 13
14 63.7 3.0 65.5 2.6 14
15 65.0 3.0 66.6 2.6 15
16 66.3 3.0 67.7 2.6 16
17 67.5 3.0 68.9 2.7 17
18 68.8 3.0 70.1 2.7 18
19 70.1 3.1 71.4 2.8 19
20 71.4 3.2 72.8 3.0 20
21 72.8 3.3 74.3 3.1 21
22 74.2 3.4 75.9 3.2 22
23 75.7 3.5 78.1 3.5 23
24 77.4 3.7 81.3 4.3 24
25 79.2 3.9 25
26 81.2 4.2 26
27 83.5 4.5 27
28 86.3 4.9 28

Abbreviations: ASR=Adult Self Report; BSI=Brief Symptom Inventory; PROMIS=Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System

Note: This crosswalk table assumed a prior distribution consistent with the PROMIS metric centered on the 2000 USA general population (i.e. mean=50.0, SD=10.0), though the MSM sample used to develop the relationship had a slightly different distribution (mean=54.4, SD=9.6)