Arthritis care & research
Differential Item Functioning on the Patient Health Questionnaire-8 by Disease Subtype, Language, Sex, and Age among People with Systemic Sclerosis: A Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network Cohort Study.
Sophie Hu, Marie-Eve Carrier, Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Meira Golberg, Linda Kwakkenbos, Susan J Bartlett, Catherine Fortuné, Amy Gietzen, Karen Gottesman, Geneviève Guillot, Laura K Hummers, Amanda Lawrie-Jones, Vanessa L Malcarne, Michelle Richard, Maureen Sauvé
Published: 202610.1002/acr.70041
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Somatic items used in depression assessments can potentially overlap with symptoms related to physical illness, including systemic sclerosis (SSc). No studies have looked at whether somatic depression items may be influenced by diffuse ver…
Preview only. Read the full abstract at the source