Development and psychometric testing of the patient-reported measure of activity performance of the hand (MAP-Hand) in rheumatoid arthritis
Taran Paulsen, Margreth Grotle, Andrew Garratt, Ingvild Kjeken
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0577
Abstract
Objective: To develop and assess the reliability and validity of a patient-reported measure of hand activity performance for persons with rheumatoid arthritis (MAP-Hand).
Methods: The development of the measure included a literature review, semi-structured interviews with 60 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and testing of face and content validity by video-observation and classification of the initial items according to standardized methods. Further testing followed 2 surveys of 176 and 134 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and included Rasch analysis and comparing MAP-Hand scores with other measures of symptoms and functional ability. Test-retest reliability was assessed in 35 stable patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Results: Most of the initial 31 items had good face and content validity. Following Rasch analysis the measure was reduced to 18 items, which had good evidence for unidimensionality, a broad range of item difficulty, good person separation and ordered thresholds in a 4-point scale. The test-retest intraclass correlation coefficient was 0. 94 (95% confidence interval 0. 89, 0. 97), indicating high reliability. The results of validity testing generally followed the a priori hypotheses, with MAP-Hand scores having moderate to high correlations with scores for the other measures.
Conclusion: The MAP-Hand is an 18-item patient-reported measure of hand activity performance, which showed good evidence for reliability and validity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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Dr Masumeh Bagherzadeh Cham
Neuromusculoskeletal Research Center, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation/Orthotics & Prosthetics, Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran
ear Dr Taran Paulsen:
I am assistant professor from Neuromasuloskeletal research center, Iran University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran.
I would like your permission to translate Measure of Activity Performance of the Hand (MAP-HAND) in Persian language for my research study. I would like to translate, use and print your questioner under the following conditions:
· I will use the questioner only for my research study.
· I will include the copyright statement on all copies of the questioner.
· I will send a copy of my completed research study to your attention upon completion of the study.
If these are acceptable terms and conditions, please indicate so by replying to me through
E-mail: masumehbagherzadeh@gmail.com/ bagherzadehcham.m@iums.ac.ir
2018-12-12 04:45:49
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