Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Development of a Quality of Life Measure for Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients Using a Mixed Methods Approach
Authors' conclusion
Using a mixed-methods approach ensured the development of a robust and psychometrically sound tool for research, design evolution and clinical practice with LVAD recipients.
Study context
- Population
- Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) recipients, three UK transplant centrespsychometric stage
- Participants
- 49 recipients
- Outcome
- Psychometric properties of the LVAD-QoL (Rasch analysis)
Methodological detailsthree-stage, Rasch measurement theory, multicentre, Interviews with 11 LVAD recipients and 10 clinicians, Cognitive interviews tested face validity and comprehension
- Three-stage
- Rasch measurement theory
- Multicentre
- Interviews with 11 LVAD recipients and 10 clinicians
- Cognitive interviews tested face validity and comprehension
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Items displaying misfit
4
Dependency between item sets (pairwise differences)
57 of 485
Original publication
Development of a Quality of Life Measure for Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients Using a Mixed Methods Approach. ESC Heart Fail. Published 14 June 2024. doi:10.
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