Establishment and primary screening of primitive entry pool of rating scale for patient-reported outcomes of coronary heart disease angina / 中国中西医结合杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To establish and screen the primitive entry pool of scale for patient-reported outcomes of coronary heart disease angina (CHDA).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Under the guidance of Chinese medical theory, the original entry pool was preliminarily established in referring the international scale development methods and the characteristics of angina pectoris, which was screened by focus group discussions, semi-open questionnaires investigation, and expert's interviews.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Thirty-six entries were screened out from the 41 entries of initially established entry pool, in which 14 entries dealt with physiological domain, 8 with psychological domain, 4 with independent domain, 3 with social relations domain, 6 with social environment domain and 1 for overall assessment.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The preliminary entries screened out have covered all the 5 commonly concerned domains of CHD-AP, could reflect the connotation of the disease more comprehensively. And it has good content validity due to its popular language, which is easily to be understood, comprehended and responded.</p>