OBJECTIVE: To develop a calibrated @entity1566 -quality of life (SCI-QOL) item bank, computer adaptive test (CAT), and short form to assess @entity308 symptoms experienced by individuals with SCI, transform scores to the @entity1 Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) metric, and create a crosswalk to the @entity1 Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9. DESIGN: We used grounded-theory based qualitative item development methods, large-scale item calibration field testing, confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory (IRT) analyses, and statistical linking techniques to transform scores to a PROMIS metric and to provide a crosswalk with the PHQ-9. SETTING: Five SCI Model System centers and one Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the United States. @entity1 : Adults with traumatic SCI. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Spinal Cord Injury--Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Depression Item Bank RESULTS: Individuals with SCI were involved in all phases of SCI-QOL development. A sample of 716 individuals with traumatic SCI completed 35 items assessing @entity308 , 18 of which were PROMIS items. After removing 7 non-PROMIS items, factor analyses confirmed a unidimensional pool of items. We used a graded response IRT model to estimate slopes and thresholds for the 28 retained items. The SCI-QOL Depression measure correlated 0.76 with the PHQ-9. CONCLUSIONS: The SCI-QOL Depression item bank provides a reliable and sensitive measure of @entity308 symptoms with scores reported in terms of general population norms. We provide a crosswalk to the PHQ-9 to facilitate comparisons between measures. The item bank may be administered as a CAT or as a short form and is suitable for research and clinical applications.

Measuring XXXX after @entity1566 : Development and psychometric characteristics of the SCI-QOL Depression item bank and linkage with PHQ-9.

@entity1566 :: ('MESH:D013119', 'Disease') :: ['spinal cord injury'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patient', 'PARTICIPANTS'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depression', 'depressive']
@entity308 :: (MESH:D003866,Disease) :: ['depression']
