Comparison of content and psychometric properties for assessment tools used for brain tumor patients: a scoping review

Ģiga, Lelde; Pētersone, Anete; Čakstiņa, Silva; Bērziņa, Guna

doi:10.1186/s12955-021-01863-0

Table 7 The psychometric properties of assessment tools used in patients with a diagnosis of brain tumor

From: Comparison of content and psychometric properties for assessment tools used for brain tumor patients: a scoping review

Assessment instrument	Reliability						Responsiveness	Time	Research group	References
Assessment instrument	Test–retest	Inter-rater	Intra-rater	Content	Structural	Criterion	Responsiveness	Time	Research group	References
EORTC QLQ-BN20			+		+		+		n = 891, brain tumor	Taphoornet al. [27]
			+*		+			< 10 min	n = 350, glioma, meningioma	Shin and Kim [28]
			+		+		+		n = 194, brain tumor	Khoshnevisan et al. [29]
			+		+				n = 100, brain tumor	Bunevičius et al. [30]
EORTC QLQ-C30			+*			−	+	13–14 (SD 12) min	n = 366, brain tumor	Cheng et al. [31]
FACT-Br	+		+		+				n = 500, brain tumor	Arli and Gurkan [32]
	+^§		+^†,‡		+			5 to 10 min	n = 101, brain tumor	Weitzner et al. [33]
	+^†				+		+		n = 62, metastases in the brain	Thavarajah et al. [34]
SF-36			+		+			10 [40,41,42,43,44,45] min	n = 277, brain tumor	Bunevičius et al. [30]

For interpretation of “+” and “−” for each property: Internal reliability: “+” Cronbach’s ɑ or ICC ≥ 0.70; “−” Cronbach’s ɑ or ICC < 0.70;
Test/retest method: “+” ICC ≥ 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/ Spearman rank correlation coefficient ≥ 0.80; “−” ICC < 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/Spearman rank correlation coefficient < 0.80;
Interrater reliability: “+” ICC ≥ 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/ Spearman rank correlation coefficient ≥ 0.80; “−” ICC < 0.70 or Pearson correlation coefficient/Spearman rank correlation coefficient < 0.80;
Content validity: “+” The content of the assessment instrument is adequate, comprehensive, questions and tasks chosen to adequately reflect the content to be evaluated; “ –” Not all selected questions and tasks reflect the content, content is not relevant, comprehensive;
Criterion validity: “+” Significant and stable relation between measurement and another instrument (r ≥ 0.70) or with start/end measurement; “ –” Poor measurement correlation with another instrument (r < 0.70) or start/end measurement;
Structural validity: “+” Correlation with instruments measuring the same ≥ 0.50 or correlation higher for unrelated elements in the instrument than for unrelated ones; “−” Correlation with instruments measuring the same < 0.50 or correlation with related elements in the instrument is lower than unrelated ones;
Responsiveness: “+” Able to detect clinically significant changes over time; “−” Cannot detect clinically significant changes over time
SD, standard deviation
^*Except Cognitive scale; ^†Except Social, family wellbeing domains; ^‡Except Interaction with a physician domain; ^§Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—General questionnaire analyzed

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