Learning Outcomes:
Understand the rationale for using PRO, PROMs and PREs in clinical trials, health services improvements, and measuring clinical progression.
Recognize the health domains measured by PROMs, administration modes and scoring.
Interpret the PROMs in the context of research, health service improvement, and/or patient experiences
Interpret studies reporting on the development and validation of PROMs
Apply concepts of face-validity, content validity, and linguistic validation as well as the analyses of psychometric validity and clinical minimal difference
Analyze and interpret the psychometric validity of a PROM.
Indicative Module Content:
Initially, students will become familiar with the main health domains measured by PROMS, administration modes and scoring
including Health-related quality of life (HRQL), functional status, Symptoms and symptom burden, Health behaviours and Patient experiences.
Subsequently, students will work hands-on in applying the validation process of PROMs which includes analysing psychometric characteristics of the tests ( construct validity, internal validity, and factorial analysis).