Comparing to PROMIS, EQ-5D is presumably briefer to administer as it contains 6 items (including VAS) rather than 43, but the PROMIS-43 contains more items in each domain, thereby providing the potential of a higher level of precision and sensitity than EQ-5D.
In addition, the CFT is a brief, easy to administer alphabet-independent, paper-and-pencil test with established psychometric properties that may be useful as an index of the sustained visual attention construct in schizophrenia.
For screening questionnaires to be helpful they need to be brief, easy to administer, valid, reliable, and sensitive.
In conclusion, the Dutch version of the LCQ is a brief, easy to administer questionnaire and appears to be valid, reliable and highly responsive.
We chose the CES-D and AUDIT because they are brief, easy to administer and have been widely used in cross-cultural studies, including African settings [ 31].
The DASS-21 is a brief, easy to administer, inventory that may assist practitioners (along with clinical interviews) to more effectively assess and treat new mothers who may be depressed, anxious and/or stressed in the postpartum.
Self-reported questionnaires are a common method used to assess insomnia as sleep data can be collected from multiple nights, they are brief, easy to administer and cost-effective.
The FS assessment is brief, easy to administer, and has suitable evidence of internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity, and clinically important thresholds have been derived [ 18, 19].
As the items are also brief, easy to administer and are comprehended well by patients, it is recommended that they are used in routine assessment to focus the attention of the care team on what really matters to the patient and screen for spiritual distress.
