gt 12, 5015 Bergen, Norway Received 8 August 2012; Revised 5 November 2012; Accepted 5 November 2012 Academic Editor: José F. Navarro Copyright © 2013 Muirne C. S. Paap et al. This is an open
gt 12, 5015 Bergen, Norway Received 8 August 2012; Revised 5 November 2012; Accepted 5 November 2012 Academic Editor: José F. Navarro Copyright © 2013 Muirne C. S. Paap et al. This is an open
gt 12, 5015 Bergen, Norway Received 8 August 2012; Revised 5 November 2012; Accepted 5 November 2012 Academic Editor: José F. Navarro Copyright © 2013 Muirne C. S. Paap et al. This is an open
gt 12, 5015 Bergen, Norway Received 8 August 2012; Revised 5 November 2012; Accepted 5 November 2012 Academic Editor: José F. Navarro Copyright © 2013 Muirne C. S. Paap et al. This is an open
Rumination has been defined as a mode of responding to distress that involves passively focusing one's attention on symptoms of distress without taking action. This dysfunctional response style intensifies depressed mood, impairs interpersonal problem solving, and leads to more pessimistic future perspectives and less social support. As most of these results were obtained from...
Objective The 12-item Partners in Health scale (PIH) was developed in Australia to measure self-management behaviour and knowledge in patients with chronic diseases, and has undergone several changes. Our aim was to assess the construct validity and reliability of the latest PIH version in Dutch COPD patients. Methods The 12 items of the PIH, scored on a self-rated 9-point Likert...
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is widely used as an outcome measure in the evaluation of treatment interventions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In order to address challenges associated with existing fixed-length measures (e.g., too long to be used routinely, too short to ensure both content validity and reliability), a COPD-specific item...
, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente , P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede , The Netherlands 2 & Muirne C. S. Paap 3 Department of Psychology, Health and Technology, Behavioural, Management and
Purpose Examining item usage is an important step in evaluating the performance of a computerized adaptive test (CAT). We study item usage for a newly developed multidimensional CAT which draws items from three PROMIS domains, as well as a disease-specific one. Methods The multidimensional item bank used in the current study contained 194 items from four domains: the PROMIS...
. Ostelo, Muirne C. S. Paap. Data curation: Alessandro Chiarotto, Annette Bishop, Kirsty Duncan, Ebenezer Afolabi. Formal analysis: Alessandro Chiarotto, Muirne C. S. Paap. Funding acquisition: Alessandro ... Chiarotto, Annette Bishop, Nadine E. Foster, Raymond W. Ostelo. Ostelo. Muirne C. S. Paap. Investigation: Alessandro Chiarotto, Annette Bishop, Kirsty Duncan, Muirne C. S. Paap. Methodology: Alessandro
PurposeMultidimensional item response theory and computerized adaptive testing (CAT) are increasingly used in mental health, quality of life (QoL), and patient-reported outcome measurement. Although multidimensional assessment techniques hold promises, they are more challenging in their application than unidimensional ones. The authors comment on minimal standards when developing...
The Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (SIPP-118) is a self-report questionnaire that aims to measure core components of (mal)adaptive personality functioning that can change over time. In this study, we aimed to assess the facet strength of the 16 facets across three large clinical samples. Data from Norwegian and Dutch psychiatric patients were analyzed in this...
Previous studies of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) interview version suggested a second-order model, with a general disability factor and six factors on a lower level. The goal of this study is to investigate if we can find support for a similar higher-order factor structure of the 36-item self-report version of the WHODAS 2.0 in a...
