PROMIS v1.0 item banks and short forms are available by download for free in Assessment Center^SM.  Click on the link below to complete a simple registration process.  Afterwards, you can download a zip file of all PROMIS instruments.

Available Instruments                                                                                        

PROMIS instruments derive primarily from calibrated item banks that enable computerized adaptive testing and multiple short forms of varying length. The following instruments are available as of April 1, 2008. 

Domain	Adult		Pediatric
	Bank	Short Forms	Bank	Short Form
Emotional Distress – Anger	29	8		6
Emotional Distress – Anxiety	29	4, 6, 7, 8		8
Emotional Distress – Depression	28	4, 6, 8, 8		8
Fatigue	95	4, 6, 7, 8		10
Pain – Behavior	39	7
Pain – Interference	41	4, 6, 6, 8		8
Satisfaction with Participation in Discretionary Social Activities	12	7
Satisfaction with Participation in Social Roles	14	4, 6, 7, 8
Sleep Disturbance	27	4, 6, 8, 8
Sleep-Related Impairment	16	8
Physical Function	124	4, 6, 8, 10, 20
– Mobility			23	8
– Upper Extremity			29	8
Asthma			17	8
Peer Relationships			15	8
Global Health		10

Notes on Administration                                                                                                      

PROMIS Version 1.0 instruments were developed based on data collected on an internet survey platform. As such, it can safely be considered valid for internet or personal computer-based applications with screen presentations of individual items. Comparability of results obtained using paper or telephone administration cannot be assumed until further testing is done. On average, respondents will answer 5 questions per minute, suggesting, for example, that a CAT administration of all 9 banks with an average of 5 items per bank will take about 10 minutes to complete.

Selecting the Right Instrument for your Study                                                            

There are two general options to consider when selecting a PROMIS instrument for your study: CAT or static short forms. Within these two general options are several specific considerations to guide your optimal selection. In all cases, when you create an assessment from a PROMIS bank, a score will be produced on the same common (Theta) metric which has been converted to a T-distribution based on the United States general population. The choice you make for assessment in your study should be driven by your relative interests in precision, brevity, item content, and flexibility/portability.

Instrument Properties

Recall Period

Most PROMIS item banks utilize a 7-day recall period.  “The past 7 days” is the reference period for all items in Anxiety, Anger, Depression, Fatigue, Pain Behavior, Pain Interference, Satisfaction with Discretionary Social Activities, and Satisfaction with Social Roles. Physical function items emphasize current capabilities and therefore do not employ a recall period.  Item stems begin with phrases such as “Does your health now limit you” or “Are you able to.” Some global health items use a 7-day recall period while others do not employ a recall period and emphasize current status “in general.”

Response Options

The term “response options” refers to the set of answers a respondent can choose from when responding to a question or statement. Virtually all PROMIS items employ five response options (e.g., 1=Not at all, 2=A little bit, 3=Somewhat, 4=Quite a bit, 5=Very much). Pain Behavior uses six response options to allow for respondents to endorse “no pain.” The 10 PROMIS Global Health items each have 5 response choices, with the exception of the common 11-point pain intensity item (“How would you rate your pain on average” with 0=No pain and 10=Worst imaginable pain).

To the extent possible, the wording of response categories was kept consistent within banks, and a limited degree of variation in response options was used across banks. This was done to ease patient burden. An effort was made for items within a PROMIS domain to utilize the same or a small number of response options.  Some flexibility in response choices within banks was considered important, however, to capture the range of patient experience in a domain (e.g., intensity, frequency, duration). Therefore, for example, most banks employed a common set of response options for intensity (i.e., “Not at all” to “Very much”) and frequency (i.e., “Never” to “Always”). The final response categories were pre-tested with cognitive interviews to confirm patient comprehension, prior to field testing for item calibration. When possible, to ease responder burden, initial short forms developed from PROMIS item banks comprise items with a common set of response options. Exceptions are the 10 Global Health items which utilize 5 unique response options and the Physical Function short form which uses 2 response options.