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Journal article
PROMIS® General Life Satisfaction scale: construct validity in musculoskeletal pain patients
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, Vol.28, pp.1-7
16/06/2020
PMCID: PMC7296662
PMID: 32539785
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Abstract
Background: Life satisfaction is part of subjective well-being. Measurement of life satisfaction is undertaken using self-report measures. This study aimed to evaluate the structural validity, concurrent validity, and internal structure of the PROMIS® General Life Satisfaction Scale (GLSS) in a musculoskeletal pain cohort.
Method: Consecutive new patients attending the Victoria University Osteopathy Clinic (Melbourne, Australia) were invited to complete the GLSS prior to their initial consultation. Structural validity and internal structure were explored using confirmatory factor analysis and Mokken scale analysis. Concurrent validity was evaluated against a single-item measure of life satisfaction.
Results: The PROMIS® GLSS comprised a single factor and formed an acceptable Mokken scale in this population. No differential item functioning was observed. A large positive correlation (r = 0.70) was observed between the General Life Satisfaction scale and a single-item measure of life satisfaction.
Conclusions: The PROMIS® General Life Satisfaction scale demonstrated acceptable internal structure and structural validity in a musculoskeletal pain population. Additional research is required to explore concurrent validity and other measurement properties, however initial data suggests the measure could be a feasible screen of life satisfaction for Australian osteopathic patients.
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- Title
- PROMIS® General Life Satisfaction scale: construct validity in musculoskeletal pain patients
- Creators
- Brett Vaughan - Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. brett.vaughan@unimelb.edu.auJane Mulcahy - College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne, AustraliaKylie Fitzgerald - School of Health & Biomedicine, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- Publication Details
- Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, Vol.28, pp.1-7
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Identifiers
- 991012958195702368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; School of Health and Human Sciences; Allied Health and Midwifery
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article