Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Introduction to validation of patient reported outcome measures (HyFlex)
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3344-23-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 17/03/2023

Date and time	18.04.2023, at: 09:00 - 02.05.2023, at: 12:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	3,600.00 kr.
Lecturers	Karl Bang Christensen
ECTS credits	2.20

Contact person	Susanne Kragskov Laupstad E-mail address: skl@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member universities. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member universities. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Know the basic principles for scale validation. 2. Compute simple indicators of patient reported outcome measures (PROMS) validity. 3. Do a simple confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the quality of PROMS. Content The course introduces simple methods validation of index scales that summarize information from several items. Examples from Patient Report Outcomes are used. The course covers classical psychometrics, confirmatory factor analysis, and methods for detection of differential item functioning. The computer exercises use SAS or R, but most of the methods discussed are relatively simple and can be done using SPSS or Stata. The course can be done online or in person and a large part of the course work is based on online elements. Illustrative examples are drawn from existing PROMS used in clinical research. Participants Ph.D.-students and researchers within medicine, public health, epidemiology, sociology, and psychology. A very basic knowledge of statistics will be assumed. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language Danish or English Form A mixture of online-lectures and self-study and Hy-Flex computer exercise classes. A mandatory exercise is handed out on the first day. Participants who bring relevant data of their own can do a compulsory exercise based on these, if the course director approves this. The mandatory exercise needs to be handed in by e-mail to the course secretary later than 16 May (two weeks after the last day on the course). Participants should bring their own laptop with SAS or R installed. Course director Associate professor Karl Bang Christensen, Section of Biostatistics, kach@sund.ku.dk Teachers Associate professor Karl Bang Christensen, and guest teachers. Dates 18 April and 2 May 2023, both days 9-12. Course location CSS Registration Please register before 17 March 2023 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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