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Journal Article
U.S. General Population Estimate for “Excellent” to “Poor” Self-Rated Health Item
2015
Overview
Background
The most commonly used self-reported health question asks people to rate their general health from
excellent
to
poor
. This is one of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) global health items. Four other items are used for scoring on the PROMIS global physical health scale. Because the single item is used on the majority of large national health surveys in the U.S., it is useful to construct scores that can be compared to U.S. general population norms.
Objective
To estimate the PROMIS global physical health scale score from the responses to the single
excellent
to
poor
self-rated health question for use in public health surveillance, research, and clinical assessment.
Design
A cross-sectional survey of 21,133 individuals, weighted to be representative of the U.S. general population.
Participants
The PROMIS items were administered via a Web-based survey to 19,601 persons in a national panel and 1,532 subjects from PROMIS research sites. The average age of individuals in the sample was 53 years, 52 % were female, 80 % were non-Hispanic white, and 19 % had a high school degree or lower level of education.
Main outcome measures
PROMIS global physical health scale.
Key results
The product–moment correlation of the single item with the PROMIS global physical health scale score was 0.81. The estimated scale score based on responses to the single item ranged from 29 (
poor
self-rated health, 2.1 SDs worse than the general population mean) to 62 (excellent self-rated health, 1.2 SDs better than the general population mean) on a T-score metric (mean of 50).
Conclusions
This item can be used to estimate scores for the PROMIS global physical health scale for use in monitoring population health and achieving public health objectives. The item may also be used for individual assessment, but its reliability (0.52) is lower than that of the PROMIS global health scale (0.81).
