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FACIT-Dyspnea Item Bank

Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Dyspnea - Item Bank

For patients with Dyspnea

Overview

Overview

Below are the details for the FACIT-Dyspnea Item Bank:

MEASURE NAME:

Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Dyspnea - Item Bank

VERSION:

Not available

NUMBER OF ITEMS:

Not available

PATIENT POPULATION:

Dyspnea patients 18 years and older

RECALL PERIOD:

Past 7 days

RESPONSE SCALE:

4 point Likert-type scales

DATA COLLECTION:

Paper and electronic

ADMINISTRATION:

Self-administration and interview when applicable

SUBSCALE DOMAINS:

Not available

TIME FOR COMPLETION:

Not available

SCORING:

Not available

RELATED MEASURES:

Language Availability

Available translations of the FACIT-Dyspnea Item Bank can be obtained by registering for permission. Users are not permitted to translate the FACIT-Dyspnea Item Bank without permission from FACIT.org. Permission from FACIT.org to translate the FACIT-Dyspnea Item Bank may also be contingent upon timeline expectations and availability of FACIT staff. Translations must undergo a rigorous methodology under the guidance of FACIT.org which includes multiple translators, QA steps and cognitive interviews with patients. For commercial use, FACITtrans is the approved translation vendor to translate the FACIT measurement system.

Please contact us for more information.

Language Availability
Licensing

Licensing

Licensing fees are assessed on a per trial/per measure basis for commercial use. There is no fee for use of the English version, but a license should be obtained.

Non-commercial use is assessed on a case-by-case basis. Licensing fees are typically not applied to investigator-initiated research, students, or clinical use.

To license an available version of this measure for commercial or non-commercial use, please complete our registration form. All of the information provided in the form will be kept strictly confidential. For questions, please contact us.

Selected References

Selected References

Choi, S., Victorson, D., Yount, S., Anton, S., & Cella, D.  Development of a conceptual framework and calibrated item banks to measure patient reported dyspnea severity and related functional limitations. Value in Health 2011; 14: 291-306.


Ruo, B., Choi, S., Baker, D., Grady, K., & Cella,D.  Development and validation of a computer adaptive test measuring dyspnea in heart failure.  Journal of Cardiac Failure 2010; 16(8): 659-668. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2010.03.002.


Victorson, D., Anton, S., Hamilton, A., Yount, S., & Cella, D.  A conceptual model of the experience of dyspnea and functional limitations in COPD. Value in Health 2009; 12(6): 1018-1025.

  

Yount, S., Choi, S., Victorson, D., Ruo, B., Ray, D., Cella, D., Anton, S., & Hamilton, A. (2011) Brief, valid measures of dyspnea and related functional limitations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Value in Health 2011; 14: 307-315.


Bonomi, A.E., Cella, D.D., Hahn, E.A., Bjordal, K., Sperner, B., Gangeri, L., Bergman, B., Willems, J., Hanquet, P., & Zittoun, R.  Multilingual translation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) quality of life measurement system.  Quality of Life Research 1996; 5: 309-320.


Eremenco, S., Arnold, B., Cella, D. A comprehensive method for the translation and cross-cultural validation of health status questionnaires. Evaluation & the Health Professions 2005; 28(2): 212-232.


Webster K., Cella D., Yost K. The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) measurement system: Properties applications, and interpretation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003; 1(1): 79-85.


Yost K.J., Eton D.T. Combining distribution- and anchor-based approaches to determine minimally important differences: The FACIT experience. Evaluation & the Health Professions 2005; 28(2): 172-191.

Related Measures

Related Measures

PROMIS SF v1.0 – Dyspnea-Severity 10a

Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Short Form - Dyspnea Severity 10a

PROMIS SF v1.0 – Dyspnea Functional Limitations 10a

Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Short Form - Dyspnea Functional Limitations 10a

FACIT-Dyspnea

Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Dyspnea

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