Agreement Between Responses From Community-Dwelling Persons With Stroke and Their Proxies on the NIH Neurological Quality of Life (Neuro-QoL) Short Forms.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine agreement between patient and proxy responses on the Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders (Neuro-QoL) instruments after stroke.

Design

Cross-sectional observational substudy of the longitudinal, multisite, multicondition Neuro-QoL validation study.

Setting

In-person, interview-guided, patient-reported outcomes.

Participants

Convenience sample of dyads (N=86) of community-dwelling persons with stroke and their proxy respondents.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

Dyads concurrently completed short forms of 8 or 9 items for the 13 Neuro-QoL adult domains using the patient-proxy perspective. Agreement was examined at the scale-level with difference scores, intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs), effect s

SUBMITTER: Kozlowski AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4628567 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature