10.23641/asha.7616534.v1
Matthew L. Cohen
Matthew L.
Cohen
David S. Tulsky
David S.
Tulsky
Aaron J. Boulton
Aaron J.
Boulton
Pamela A. Kisala
Pamela A.
Kisala
Hilary Bertisch
Hilary
Bertisch
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen
Yeates
Mark R. Zonfrillo
Mark R.
Zonfrillo
Dennis R. Durbin
Dennis R.
Durbin
Kenneth M. Jaffe
Kenneth M.
Jaffe
Nancy Temkin
Nancy
Temkin
Jin Wang
Jin
Wang
Frederick P. Rivara
Frederick
P. Rivara
TBI-QOL Communication short form with children (Cohen et al., 2019)
ASHA journals
2019
language
traumatic brain injury
Traumatic Brain Injury Quality of Life Communication Item Bank
short form
TBI-QOL COM
reliability
construct validity
parent-proxy
report
measure
instrument
children
internal
consistency
patient-reported outcome
outcome
functional
communication
postinjury
pediatric
severity
evidence
Language
2019-01-29 14:49:08
Journal contribution
https://asha.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/TBI-QOL_Communication_short_form_with_children_Cohen_et_al_2019_/7616534
<div><b>Purpose: </b>The purpose of this study was to evaluate the internal consistency and construct validity of the Traumatic Brain Injury Quality of Life Communication Item Bank (TBI-QOL COM) short form as a parent-proxy report measure. The TBI-QOL COM is a patient-reported outcome measure of functional communication originally developed as a self-report measure for adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it may also be valid as a parent-proxy report measure for children who have sustained TBI.</div><div><b>Method: </b>One hundred twenty-nine parent-proxy raters completed the TBI-QOL COM short form 6 months postinjury as a secondary aim of a multisite study of pediatric TBI outcomes. The respondents’ children with TBI were between 8 and 18 years old (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 13.2 years old) at the time of injury, and the proportion of TBI severity mirrored national trends (73% complicated–mild; 27% moderate or severe).</div><div><b>Results: </b>The parent-proxy report version of the TBI-QOL COM displayed strong internal consistency (ordinal α = .93). It also displayed evidence of known-groups validity by virtue of more severe injuries associated with more abnormal scores. The instrument also showed evidence of convergent and discriminant validity by displaying a pattern of correlations with other constructs according to their conceptual relatedness to functional communication.</div><div><b>Conclusions:</b> This preliminary psychometric investigation of the TBI-QOL COM supports the further development of a parent report version of the instrument. Future development of the TBI-QOL COM with this population may include expanding the content of the item bank and developing calibrations specifically for parent-proxy raters.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Supplemental Material S1.</b> Comparison of completers vs. noncompleters at 6 months. </div><div><br></div><div>Cohen, M. L., Tulsky, D. S., Boulton, A. J., Kisala, P. A., Kertisch, H., Yeates, K. O., . . . Rivara, F. P. (2019). Reliability and construct validity of the TBI-QOL Communication short form as a parent-proxy report instrument for children with traumatic brain injury. <i>Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. </i>Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-18-0074</div>