Call for participation! The PRO-MEASURE survey
The PRO-MEASURE survey funded by Wellcome (grant C-013403), targets researchers involved in using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in mental health research across the world.
It is open to anyone involved in research, from master’s students, postdoctoral researchers, and senior investigators using PROMs to measure aspects of mental health in a study. It explores several dimensions of the selection process including, resources used when choosing an instrument, factors that influenced their PROM selection and study specific approaches to measurement selection.
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Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) play a central role in mental health research. Whether assessing depression, quality of life, or psychosocial functioning, these standardised questionnaires allow researchers to capture the perspective of those directly affected. Today, several hundred PROMs exist to measure different aspects of mental health, ranging from widely used instruments such as the PHQ-9 for depression, to tools designed for more specific populations or clinical contexts.
Given the diversity of PROMs, one question remains largely unanswered: how do researchers actually choose which measure to use in their study? What factors shape this decision; the psychometric quality of the instrument, team habits, requirements from funders or journals, or the need to maintain comparability with previous studies?
To address this question, the PRO-MEASURE survey explores several dimensions of the selection process: training in measurement science (psychometrics), resources used when choosing an instrument alongside the factors that influenced their decision in PROM selection.
These results will help build a clearer picture of current practices in PROM selection within mental health research, identify unmet needs among researchers, and inform the development of tools and resources, including a future digital platform to support more informed and systematic measure selection.
By mapping how PROMs are actually chosen rather than how selection is recommended in guidelines, the PRO-MEASURE survey will help identify where researchers most need support, and shape the tools and evidence syntheses offered through the new platform. In this way, the study aims not only to describe current practice, but to make future measure selection more informed and consistent across the field.
The project is led by Dr Astrid Chevance (METHODS, Université Paris Cité), alongside Karolin Krause (METHODS), Dr Suneeta Monga (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada, and Corentin Gosling (Université Paris Nanterre, France).
Photos crédits : Alan Ricardo Patlan Hernandez & Inika Khosla
