Cognitive Interview Questions in PROMIS

Christodoulou et al. (2008) -- Fatigue Items &

Irwin et al. (2009)—Pediatric item bank (physical functioning, emotional health, social health, fatigue, pain, and asthma-specific symptoms)

Directions

How would you make the directions more clear/easy to understand? (P)

What does "in the past 7 days" mean to you? (P)

When you see "the last 7 days", what days did you include? (F, P)

Did you think mostly about your experience on specific days or what was typical for you over the last 7 days (If specific days, “can you tell me more about what made you think about those specific days?”) (F)
Would you have responded to this statement differently if we asked you about what had happened over the last 30 days instead of only the last 7 days? (F)

Items

In your own words, what do you think this question is asking? (F, P)

What does this question mean to you? What did you think of when answering this question? (P)

Was this question easy to understand? Are there any specific words that are difficult to understand? (P)

How would you change the words to make it more clear? (F, P)

Was this item hard to answer? If yes, why? (P)

How did you choose your answer? (P)

Domains

In your own words, what do you think this group of questions is asking about? (P)

How do you think these items are related? (P)

Are there any questions that don't belong in this group? (P)

Response Choices

What do you think about the response choices? (P)

How easy or hard was it to tell the difference between each choice? (F)
You chose (quote their choice) as your answer. What does (quote their choice) mean to you? (F)

How would you make the response choices clearer or easier to understand? (F, P)

Overall Assessment

Are there things that we forgot to ask about that you think are important? (P)

Overall thoughts/opinions of the questionnaire? (P)

Anything you would change in the questionnaire as a whole? (F, P)

Questions that may be applied to evaluating OT quality questionnaire for stroke patients：

題目相關

1. In your own words, what do you think this question is asking? (F, P)

請問您認為這個問題是在問甚麼？

2. Was this question easy to understand? Are there any specific words that are difficult to understand? (P)

您認為這個問題的敘述容易理解嗎？有沒有哪些詞看起來不知道是甚麼意思？

3. How would you change the words to make it more clear? (F, P)

對於那些比較難理解的詞，您認為可以更換成甚麼更簡單的詞？

向度相關

1.      In your own words, what do you think this group of questions is asking about? (P)

對您來說，這部分的題目都是在問哪一方面的問題？

2.      Are there any questions that don't belong in this group? (P)

您認為有那些題目，不符合您剛剛所說的「那一方面」？

選項相關

1.      How easy or hard was it to tell the difference between each choice? (F)

您認為區分每個選項之間的差異是否容易？

2.      You chose (quote their choice) as your answer. What does (quote their choice) mean to you? (F)

在這一題中，您選擇了(受試者的作答)，請問您選擇這個選項的原因為何？

3.      How would you make the response choices clearer or easier to understand? (F, P)

您認為這些選項要如何修改以變得更清楚易懂？

整體評估

1.      Are there things that we forgot to ask about that you think are important? (P)

在整份問卷中，您認為有哪些問題是我們沒有問但您認為重要的？

2.      Anything you would change in the questionnaire as a whole? (F, P)

對於整份問卷，您認為還有哪些可以修改的部分？