title: Concurrent validity of the PROMIS® pediatric global health measure.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the concurrent validity of the PROMIS Pediatric Global Health measure (PGH-7), child-report and parent-proxy versions.
  
  
  METHODS
  Surveys were administered via home computer on two separate occasions (December, 2011 and August/September, 2012) to a convenience sample of 4636 children 8-17 years old and 2609 parents who participated in a national Internet panel. Data analysis included: (1) evaluations of differences in PGH-7 scores between groups defined by sociodemographics, clinical characteristics, and access to health care; (2) associations with 15 PROMIS pediatric measures; and (3) correlations with two health-related quality-of-life instruments, the KIDSCREEN-10 and PedsQL-15.
  
  
  RESULTS
  PGH-7 scores were lower for children with chronic conditions, Hispanic ethnicity, low socioeconomic status, and barriers to accessing health care. The PGH-7 showed excellent convergent and discriminant validity with PROMIS pediatric measures of physical, mental, and social health. The PGH-7 was strongly correlated with the KIDSCREEN-10, which assesses positive health, and moderately correlated with the PedsQL-15, which assesses problems with a child's health.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The PGH-7 measures global health, summarizing a child's physical, mental, and social health into a single score. These properties make it a useful clinical, population health, and research tool for applications that require an efficient, precise, and valid summary measure of a children's self-reported health status. Future research should prospectively evaluate the PGH-7's capacity to detect change that results from alterations in clinical status, transformations of the healthcare delivery system, and children's health development.
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Ctr Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. forrestc@email.chop.edu.|Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. forrestc@email.chop.edu.
authors: Christopher B
authors: CB
authors: Forrest
authors: College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors: Carole A
authors: CA
authors: Tucker
authors: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
authors: Ulrike
authors: U
authors: Ravens-Sieberer
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Ctr Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
authors: Ramya
authors: R
authors: Pratiwadi
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Ctr Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
authors: JeanHee
authors: J
authors: Moon
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Ctr Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
authors: Rachel E
authors: RE
authors: Teneralli
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Ctr Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
authors: Brandon
authors: B
authors: Becker
authors: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Ctr Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
authors: Katherine B
authors: KB
authors: Bevans
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D000067576:Child Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D010372:Pediatrics; D019727:Proxy; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Child; Global health; Health status; Person-reported outcome; Quality of life