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. 2022 Jul 18;11:144. doi: 10.1186/s13643-022-02018-y

Table 1.

Outcome measures per measurement properties

Measurement property Measure(s) of effect
Self-reported outcome measurement development Concept elicitation: sample size (evaluated based on COSMIN guidelines) [20, 22]
Cognitive interview study: number of patients per item
Comprehensiveness: number of patients per item
Content validity Relevance (patients): number of patients per item
Comprehensiveness (patient): number of patients per item
Comprehensibility (patient): number of patients per item
Relevance (professionals): number of professionals per item
Structural validity Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
Internal consistency Continuous scores: Cronbach’s alpha or omega
Dichotomous scores: Cronbach’s alpha or KR-20
Item response theory (IRT)-based scores: SE (θ) or reliability coefficient
Reliability Continuous scores: intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)
Dichotomous/nominal/ordinal scores: kappa, weighted kappa (ordinal scores)
Cross-cultural validity Whether the PROM shows similar structural validity and reliability when validated in another cultural context or translated to another language