PLoS ONE • Vol 19 • No 6
Developing a multimedia patient-reported outcomes measure for low literacy patients with a human-centered design approach
June 2024 • Chao Long Azad, Laura K. Beres, Albert W. Wu, Allan Fong, Aviram M. Giladi
Introduction Almost all patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are text-based, which impedes accurate completion by low and limited literacy patients. Few PROMs are designed or validated to be self-administered, either in clinical or research settings, by patients of all literacy levels. We aimed to adapt the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Upper Extremity Short Form (PROMIS-UE) to a multimedia version (mPROMIS-UE) that can be self-administered by hand and upper extremity patients of a…