Vasculitis & polymyalgia rheumatica
Beyond the symptoms: Personalizing giant cell arteritis care through multidimensional patient reported outcome measure
Authors' conclusion
The developed GCA-PROMs questionnaire is a reliable and valid instrument for assessment of GCA patients.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)completed the questionnaire
- Participants
- 54 patients
- Outcome
- Validity, reliability and responsiveness to change of a disease-specific GCA-PROMs questionnaire
Methodological detailscognitive interviews, Rasch analysis, internal consistency reliability analysis
- Cognitive interviews
- Rasch analysis
- Internal consistency reliability analysis
Performance
As reported in the abstract
- Reliability: standardized alpha
- 0.878-0.983
- GCA-PROMs functional disability and QoL correlated significantly with HAQ and EQ-5D
- p< 0.01
- Changes in functional disability and QoL varied significantly with disease activity status in response to therapy
- p< 0.01
Original publication
Beyond the symptoms: Personalizing giant cell arteritis care through multidimensional patient reported outcome measure. Semin Arthritis Rheum. Published 28 October 2023. doi:10.
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