The feasibility and acceptability of using the Mother-Generated Index (MGI) as a Patient Reported Outcome Measure in a randomised controlled trial of maternity care

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• 作者：Andrew Symon ; Soo Downe ; Kenneth William Finlayson…
• 关键词：Patient ; reported outcome measure ; Randomised controlled trial ; Quality of life ; Pregnancy ; Antenatal ; Postnatal ; Feasibility ; Acceptability
• 刊名：BMC Medical Research Methodology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：527 KB
• 刊物主题：Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1471-2288

文摘

Background Using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to assess Quality of Life (QoL) is well established, but commonly-used PROM item-sets do not necessarily capture what all respondents consider important. Measuring complex constructs is particularly difficult in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). The Mother-Generated Index (MGI) is a validated antenatal and postnatal QoL instrument in which the variables and scores are completely respondent-driven. This paper reports on the feasibility and acceptability of the MGI in an RCT, and compares the resulting variables and QoL scores with more commonly used instruments.