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Is Going Beyond Rasch Analysis Necessary to Assess the Construct Validity of a Motor Function Scale?
Tiffanie Guillot1, Sylvain Roche2, Pascal Rippert3
1Service de Biostatistique-Bioinformatique, Pôle Santé Publique, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
|April 7, 2018
Summary
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) better establishes construct validity for the Motor Function Measure (MFM) than Rasch analysis. CFA also allows for item weighting to adapt scores for specific neuromuscular diseases like CMT, FSHD, and DM1.
Area of Science:
- Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine
- Biostatistics and Psychometrics
Background:
- The Motor Function Measure (MFM) is a multidimensional scale used to assess patient abilities.
- Establishing the construct validity of such scales is crucial for accurate clinical assessment and research.
- The suitability of Rasch analysis versus confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for validating the MFM requires examination.
Purpose of the Study:
- To determine if Rasch analysis is sufficient for establishing the construct validity of the MFM.
- To investigate whether weighting MFM item scores can enhance its construct validity.
- To compare the efficacy of Rasch analysis and CFA in validating the MFM across different neuromuscular diseases.
Main Methods:
- An observational, cross-sectional, multicenter study was conducted.
- Data from 911 patients (aged 6-60 years) with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD), or myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) were analyzed.
- The goodness-of-fit of a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model was compared against a modified multidimensional Rasch model using MFM item scores.
Main Results:
- The CFA model demonstrated a good fit to the data, significantly outperforming the modified multidimensional Rasch model across all diseases (P<.001).
- Statistically significant differences in item standardized factor loadings were observed for only 6 out of 32 items when comparing DM1, CMT, and FSHD.
- These findings suggest disease-specific variations in how MFM items are perceived or perform.
Conclusions:
- For multidimensional scales like the MFM assessing patient abilities across various diseases, Rasch analysis may not be the most suitable validation method.
- Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is effective in establishing scale construct validity.
- CFA can also provide item weights to tailor the MFM scores for specific disease populations, improving its clinical utility.
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