Validation of PROMIS Banks With COPD Exacerbations

Completed

Conditions studied: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

In brief

The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) is an NIH Roadmap initiative to develop a computerized system measuring patient-reported outcomes in respondents with a wide range of chronic diseases and demographic characteristics. In the first four years of its existence, the PROMIS network developed item banks for measuring patient-reported outcomes in the areas of pain, fatigue, emotional distress, physical function, and social functioning. During the item banking process, the PROMIS network conducted focus groups, individual cognitive interviews, and lexile (reading level) analyses to refine the meaning, clarity, and literacy demands of all items. The item banks were administered to over 20,000 respondents and calibrated using models based on item response theory (IRT). Using these IRT calibrations, computerized adaptive test (CAT) algorithms were developed and implemented. The network has designed a series of studies using clinical populations to evaluate the item attributes, examine their utility as CATs, and validate the item banks. More information on the PROMIS network can be found at www.nihpromis.org.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00784342

Run by

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

People needed

188

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2009-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-12-13

Who can join

Age: 40 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• An established clinical history of COPD in accordance with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) definition: COPD is a preventable and treatable disease with some significant extrapulmonary effects that may contribute to the severity in individual patients. Its pulmonary component is characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible. The airflow limitation is usually progressive and associated with an abnormal inflammatory response of the lung to noxious particles or gases.
• A history of smoking (at least 10 pack/year history)
• Access to and able to communicate on a touch tone telephone
• Read and speak English
• Able to see and interact with a computer screen, mouse, and keyboard
• A signed and dated written informed consent prior to study participation
• For those enrolled into the exacerbation group: Treatment for an exacerbation may have been started no more than 3 days prior to the day of enrollment for patients recruited in the outpatient setting and no more than 6 days prior to the day of enrollment for patients recruited in the in-patients setting.
• For those enrolled in the stable state group, the patient will be considered stable if he or she has been exacerbation-free for a minimum of 2 months prior to enrollment.

You may not qualify if…

• Any concurrent medical or psychiatric condition that may preclude participation in this study or completion of self-administered questionnaires (e.g., moderate to severe dementia and/or severe, uncontrolled schizophrenia, or other condition that would render the participant unable to complete a questionnaire)
• History of asthma without co-existent COPD as the primary diagnosis
• Experiencing a current heart failure exacerbation. (A diagnosis of heart failure is not in itself an exclusion criterion.)

Where it is running

• NorthShore University HealthSystem (Formerly Evanston Northwestern Healthcare) — Evanston, Illinois, United States
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Pittsburgh VA Hospital — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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