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. 2021 Sep 28;101(9):272. doi: 10.2340/00015555-3884

Table VI.

Quality assessment of measurement properties per study according to predefined criteria proposed by Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) (12)

PROM Study Structural validity Internal consistency Reliability Measurement error Construct validity Cross-cultural validity/measurement invariance Responsiveness
ACSD (32) ?
CDLQI (33) ? +
CDLQI-C (34) + ? ?
CQI-CSD (74) ? + ?
DIS (35) ?
DLQI (38) ? ?
(37) + ? +
(39) ? + ?
(16) ?
(76) ? ? ±
(75) +
(36) ? ? ?
DLQI-B (40) + ?
DLQI-C (42) ? ?
(41) ? ? ?
(44) + + ?
(43) + +
DLQI-D (27) + ? ?
DLQI-I (45) + + +
DLQI-N (46) ? + ?
DLQI-S (30) + +
DLQI-T (47) ? +
DLQI-U (19) +
DQOLs (48) ? + + ±
DSQL (50) + +
(49) ? + ? ±
FLQA-d (14) ? ? ?
PBI (51) + ?
PeDeSI (52) ? +
PRISM (53) + +
SF-QES (29) + + +
Skindex (54) ? ? ? + ?
S29 (77) +
(55) ? + ? + +
S29-C (18) ? +
S29-G (56) ? + ? ?
S29-S (31) + ±
S29-Sp (28) + + + +
(26) + +
S16 (57) + + + ?
S16-A (58) + +
S16-BP (59) + + +
S16-C (18) + ? +
S16-J (60) + +
S16-M (61) + + +
S16-U (19) +
TQL (62) ? + ?
VQ-Dermato (63) ? ? + +

PROM: patient-reported outcome measures; ACSD: Adjustment to Chronic Skin Diseases Questionnaire; CDLQI: Children’s Dermatology Life Quality Index; CDLQI-C: Children’s Dermatology Life Quality Index Cantonese; CQI-CSD: Consumer Quality Index Chronic Skin Disease; DIS: Dermatology Intimacy Scale; DLQI: Dermatology Life Quality Index; DLQI-B: DLQI Brazilian-Portuguese; DLQI-C: DLQI Chinese; DLQI-D: DLQI Danish; DLQI-I: DLQI Italian; DLQI-N: DLQI Norwegian; DLQI-S: DLQI Sinhala; DLQI-T: DLQI Turkish; DLQI-U: DLQI Ukrainian; DQOLs: Dermatology Quality of Life scales; DSQL: Dermatology-specific Quality of Life; FLQA-d: Freiburg Life Quality Assessment; PBI: Patient Benefit Index; PeDeSI: Person-Centred Dermatology Self-Care Index; PRISM: Pictorial Representation of Illness & Self-Measure; SF-QES: Short-form of the Questionnaire on Experience with Skin Complaints; S29: Skindex 29; S29-C: S29-Chinese; S29-G: S29-German; S29-S: S29-Serbian; S29-Sp: S29-Spanish; S16: Skindex-16; S16-A: S16-Arabic; S16-BP: S16-Brazilian-Portuguese; S16-C: S16-Chinese; S16-J: S16-Japanese; S16-M: S16-Moroccan-Arabic; S16-U: S16-Ukrainian; TQL: Turkish Quality of Life Instrument for skin disease; +: sufficient; –: insufficient; ±: inconsistent; ?: indeterminate.