Calibration of the Spanish PROMIS Smoking Item Banks

Conclusions:
The Spanish PROMIS smoking item banks are highly similar, but not entirely equivalent, to the original English versions. The parameters from these two-group calibrations can be used to generate comparable bank scores across the two language versions.

Implications:
In this study, we developed a Spanish version of the PROMIS smoking toolkit, which was originally designed and developed for English speakers. With the growing Spanish-speaking population, it is important to make the toolkit more accessible by translating the items and calibrating the Spanish version to be comparable with English-language scores. This study provided the translated item banks and short forms, comparable unbiased scores for Spanish speakers and evaluations of the psychometric properties of the new Spanish toolkit.

Source: Nicotine and Tobacco Research - June 10, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: Huang, W., Stucky, B. D., Edelen, M. O., Tucker, J. S., Shadel, W. G., Hansen, M., Cai, L. Tags: Original Investigation Source Type: research