PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.

<h4>Objective</h4>To construct a metric of the impact of brain disorders on people's lives, based on the psychosocial difficulties (PSDs) that are experienced in common across brain disorders.<h4>Study design</h4>Psychometric study using data from a cross-sectional study...

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Main Authors: Alarcos Cieza, Carla Sabariego, Marta Anczewska, Carolina Ballert, Jerome Bickenbach, Maria Cabello, Ambra Giovannetti, Teemu Kaskela, Blanca Mellor, Tuuli Pitkänen, Rui Quintas, Alberto Raggi, Piotr Świtaj, Somnath Chatterji, PARADISE Consortium
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132410&type=printable
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author Alarcos Cieza
Carla Sabariego
Marta Anczewska
Carolina Ballert
Jerome Bickenbach
Maria Cabello
Ambra Giovannetti
Teemu Kaskela
Blanca Mellor
Tuuli Pitkänen
Rui Quintas
Alberto Raggi
Piotr Świtaj
Somnath Chatterji
PARADISE Consortium
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Carla Sabariego
Marta Anczewska
Carolina Ballert
Jerome Bickenbach
Maria Cabello
Ambra Giovannetti
Teemu Kaskela
Blanca Mellor
Tuuli Pitkänen
Rui Quintas
Alberto Raggi
Piotr Świtaj
Somnath Chatterji
PARADISE Consortium
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description <h4>Objective</h4>To construct a metric of the impact of brain disorders on people's lives, based on the psychosocial difficulties (PSDs) that are experienced in common across brain disorders.<h4>Study design</h4>Psychometric study using data from a cross-sectional study with a convenience sample of 722 persons with 9 different brain disorders interviewed in four European countries: Italy, Poland, Spain and Finland. Questions addressing 64 PSDs were first reduced based on statistical considerations, patient's perspective and clinical expertise. Rasch analyses for polytomous data were also applied.<h4>Setting</h4>In and outpatient settings.<h4>Results</h4>A valid and reliable metric with 24 items was created. The infit of all questions ranged between 0.7 and 1.3. There were no disordered thresholds. The targeting between item thresholds and persons' abilities was good and the person-separation index was 0.92. Persons' abilities were linearly transformed into a more intuitive scale ranging from zero (no PSDs) to 100 (extreme PSDs).<h4>Conclusion</h4>The metric, called PARADISE 24, is based on the hypothesis of horizontal epidemiology, which affirms that people with brain disorders commonly experience PSDs. This metric is a useful tool to carry out cardinal comparisons over time of the magnitude of the psychosocial impact of brain disorders and between persons and groups in clinical practice and research.
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spelling doaj-art-e4c8029e877b432e8086fcfc33e1b1072025-08-20T02:34:09ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01107e013241010.1371/journal.pone.0132410PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.Alarcos CiezaCarla SabariegoMarta AnczewskaCarolina BallertJerome BickenbachMaria CabelloAmbra GiovannettiTeemu KaskelaBlanca MellorTuuli PitkänenRui QuintasAlberto RaggiPiotr ŚwitajSomnath ChatterjiPARADISE Consortium<h4>Objective</h4>To construct a metric of the impact of brain disorders on people's lives, based on the psychosocial difficulties (PSDs) that are experienced in common across brain disorders.<h4>Study design</h4>Psychometric study using data from a cross-sectional study with a convenience sample of 722 persons with 9 different brain disorders interviewed in four European countries: Italy, Poland, Spain and Finland. Questions addressing 64 PSDs were first reduced based on statistical considerations, patient's perspective and clinical expertise. Rasch analyses for polytomous data were also applied.<h4>Setting</h4>In and outpatient settings.<h4>Results</h4>A valid and reliable metric with 24 items was created. The infit of all questions ranged between 0.7 and 1.3. There were no disordered thresholds. The targeting between item thresholds and persons' abilities was good and the person-separation index was 0.92. Persons' abilities were linearly transformed into a more intuitive scale ranging from zero (no PSDs) to 100 (extreme PSDs).<h4>Conclusion</h4>The metric, called PARADISE 24, is based on the hypothesis of horizontal epidemiology, which affirms that people with brain disorders commonly experience PSDs. This metric is a useful tool to carry out cardinal comparisons over time of the magnitude of the psychosocial impact of brain disorders and between persons and groups in clinical practice and research.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132410&type=printable
spellingShingle Alarcos Cieza
Carla Sabariego
Marta Anczewska
Carolina Ballert
Jerome Bickenbach
Maria Cabello
Ambra Giovannetti
Teemu Kaskela
Blanca Mellor
Tuuli Pitkänen
Rui Quintas
Alberto Raggi
Piotr Świtaj
Somnath Chatterji
PARADISE Consortium
PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.
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title PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.
title_full PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.
title_fullStr PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.
title_full_unstemmed PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.
title_short PARADISE 24: A Measure to Assess the Impact of Brain Disorders on People's Lives.
title_sort paradise 24 a measure to assess the impact of brain disorders on people s lives
url https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132410&type=printable
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