Specific measures are designed to be valid for a specific disease or population and aim to gather information on specific disease-symptoms or health-problems [ 63].
Generic measures such as the EQ-5D also exist which are designed to be valid assessments of HRQoL in any disease area [ 5].
The HADS was designed to be valid in clinical populations with symptoms of physical disease and hence leaves out items that may be endorsed by physical rather than mental states.
This approach is designed to be both statistically powerful and biologically valid.
As such, the program was designed to be ecologically valid, age appropriate, and parent-involved.
The CUSADOS was designed to be reliable, valid, sensitive to change, brief, easy to score, and easily accessible, to facilitate its use in routine clinical settings.
The scale was designed to be a brief, reliable and valid measure of individual differences in the degree to which individuals value affect-reinforced need for intellectual engagement.
However, ORACLe was designed to be an objective (and thus, valid) measure of whether a range of systems and tools exist within the organisation to support research use, as opposed to staff perceptions (or awareness) of these systems and tools.
The PROMIS pediatric measures were designed to be publically available, efficient, precise, and valid across a variety of diseases to assess patient reports of quality of life.
The updated VaLID interface, showing all of the available search terms, is presented in Figure 3. Since its inception, VaLID was designed to be a comprehensive glycerophospholipid database linking a convenient search engine with visualization features for identification and dissemination of large-scale lipidomic datasets.
