Publications

Sep 20, 2016

Readability and Comprehension of the Geriatric Depression Scale and PROMIS® Physical Function Items in Older African Americans and Latinos

The wording of items and response options in two commonly used measures of depression and physical functioning in older adults were found to exceed the U.S. recommended readability threshold for vulnerable populations.

Sylvia H. Paz, Loretta Jones, Jose L. Calderon, Ron D. Hays
Feb 29, 2016

Additional Validity Evidence for the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit

Using data from a follow-up sample (N = 491) and a community sample (N = 369) of adult daily and nondaily smokers, we replicated the findings from Edelen et al. (2014a) and examined the correlations of legacy smoking measures with the new item bank scores.

Maria Orlando Edelen, Brian D. Stucky, Wenjing Huang
Feb 12, 2016

Calibration of the Spanish PROMIS Smoking Item Banks

The goal of this study is to evaluate the performance of the Spanish version of the PROMIS smoking item banks as compared to the original banks developed in English.

Wenjing Huang, Michael Garcia, Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman, Yingye Zheng, Douglas A. Corley, Ethan A. Halm, Amit G. Singal, Carrie N. Klabunde, Chyke A. Doubeni, Aruna Kamineni, Theodore R. Levin, Joanne E. Schottinger, Beverly B. Green, Virginia P. Quinn, Carolyn M. Rutter
Apr 22, 2015

The Psychometric Performance of the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit: Comparisons of Real-Data CATs, Short Forms, and Mode of Administration

The PROMIS® Smoking Initiative has developed six items banks for assessment related to cigarette smoking among adult smokers.

Brian D. Stucky, Wenjing Huang, Maria Orlando Edelen
Apr 22, 2015

The Psychometric Performance of the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit: Comparisons of Real-Data CATs, Short Forms, and Mode of Administration

The PROMIS® Smoking Initiative has developed six items banks for assessment related to cigarette smoking among adult smokers.

Brian D. Stucky, Wenjing Huang, Maria Orlando Edelen
Aug 1, 2014

The PROMIS® Smoking Assessment Toolkit—background and Introduction to Supplement

The new smoking assessment toolkit has attractive measurement features that are likely to benefit smoking research as researchers begin to utilize this resource.

Maria Orlando Edelen
Aug 1, 2014

The PROMIS® Smoking Initiative: Initial Validity Evidence for Six New Smoking Item Banks

The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Smoking Initiative has developed 6 item banks for assessing smoking behaviors and biopsychosocial correlates of smoking among daily and nondaily adult cigarette smokers.

Maria Orlando Edelen, Brian D. Stucky, Mark Hansen, Joan S. Tucker, William G. Shadel, Li Cai
Aug 1, 2014

Development of the PROMIS® Health Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks

This paper describes the development and evaluation of item banks for assessing the health expectancies of smoking.

Maria Orlando Edelen, Joan S. Tucker, William G. Shadel, Brian D. Stucky, Jennifer L. Cerully, Zhen Li, Mark Hansen, Li Cai
Aug 1, 2014

Methodology for Developing and Evaluating the PROMIS® Smoking Item Banks

The development of the PROMIS smoking item banks provides researchers with new tools for measuring smoking-related constructs.

Mark Hansen, Li Cai, Brian D. Stucky, Joan S. Tucker, William G. Shadel, Maria Orlando Edelen
Aug 1, 2014

Development of the PROMIS® Coping Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks

Smoking is a coping strategy for many smokers who then have difficulty finding new ways to cope with negative affect when they quit. This paper describes analyses conducted to develop and evaluate item banks for assessing the coping expectancies of smoking for daily and nondaily smokers.

William G. Shadel, Maria Orlando Edelen, Joan S. Tucker, Brian D. Stucky, Mark Hansen, Li Cai
Aug 22, 2014

Development of the PROMIS® Nicotine Dependence Item Banks

This article describes analyses conducted to develop and evaluate item banks for assessing nicotine dependence among daily and nondaily smokers.

William G. Shadel, Maria Orlando Edelen, Joan S. Tucker, Brian D. Stucky, Mark Hansen, Li Cai
Aug 22, 2014

Development of the PROMIS® Positive Emotional and Sensory Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks

This paper describes development of Positive Emotional and Sensory Expectancies of Smoking item banks that will serve to standardize the assessment of this construct among daily and nondaily cigarette smokers.

Joan S. Tucker, William G. Shadel, Maria Orlando Edelen, Brian D. Stucky, Zhen Li, Mark Hansen, Li Cai
Aug 22, 2014

Development of the PROMIS® Social Motivations for Smoking Item Banks

This paper describes development of the PROMIS® Social Motivations for Smoking item banks, which will serve to standardize assessment of these social motivations among daily and nondaily smokers.

Joan S. Tucker, William G. Shadel, Maria Orlando Edelen, Brian D. Stucky, Megan Kuhfeld, Mark Hansen, Li Cai
Jul 31, 2012

Toward a More Systematic Assessment of Smoking: Development of a Smoking Module for PROMIS®

The aim of the PROMIS® Smoking Initiative is to develop, evaluate, and standardize item banks to assess cigarette smoking behavior and biopsychosocial constructs associated with smoking for both daily and non-daily smokers.

Maria Orlando Edelen, Joan S. Tucker, William G. Shadel, Brian D. Stucky, Li Cai
Jan 17, 2011

A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

William G. Shadel, Maria Orlando Edelen, Joan S. Tucker

Publications

Readability and Comprehension of the Geriatric Depression Scale and PROMIS® Physical Function Items in Older African Americans and Latinos

Additional Validity Evidence for the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit

Calibration of the Spanish PROMIS Smoking Item Banks

The Psychometric Performance of the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit: Comparisons of Real-Data CATs, Short Forms, and Mode of Administration

The Psychometric Performance of the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit: Comparisons of Real-Data CATs, Short Forms, and Mode of Administration

The PROMIS® Smoking Assessment Toolkit—background and Introduction to Supplement

The PROMIS® Smoking Initiative: Initial Validity Evidence for Six New Smoking Item Banks

Development of the PROMIS® Health Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks

Methodology for Developing and Evaluating the PROMIS® Smoking Item Banks

Development of the PROMIS® Coping Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks

Development of the PROMIS® Nicotine Dependence Item Banks

Development of the PROMIS® Positive Emotional and Sensory Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks

Development of the PROMIS® Social Motivations for Smoking Item Banks

Toward a More Systematic Assessment of Smoking: Development of a Smoking Module for PROMIS®

A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative