Location:

University of Copenhagen, Centre for Health and Society (Center for Sundhed og Samfund in Danish, abbreviated CSS). Located at the former municipal hospital of Copenhagen (Kommunehospitalet) right across from the botanical garden and next to the inner Copenhagen lakes.

Software:

R will be used, for a crash course and some info on how to get started:

http://r.sund.ku.dk/

If you want to run analyses online

https://rstudio.cloud/

Teachers:

Karl Bang Christensen	University of Copenhagen
Tim Pickles	Cardiff University
Mike Horton	University of Leeds

First day:

Monday May 5, 2025, 10.00-17.00, CSS, room 7.0.01 (building 7; see map below)

Time	Presenter	Title	Material
10.00- 10.45	Karl Bang Christensen	Introduction	biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/validation-intro-1.html
11.00-12.00		Exercises

13.00- 13.45	Tim Pickles	COSMIN: taxonomy and assessments
14.00- 15.00	Karl Bang Christensen	Data analysis	biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/validation-intro-2.html
15.15- 16.00		Exercises
16.15- 17.00	Karl Bang Christensen	Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)	biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/validation-intro-3.html

Second day:

Tuesday May 6, 2025, 8.15-15.00, CSS 7.0.01 (building 7; see map below)

Time	Presenter	Title	Material
10.00- 11.00	Karl Bang Christensen	Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)	biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/validation-intro-3.html
11.15- 12.00		Exercises

13.00- 14.00	Mike Horton	Beyond CFA: introduction to Rasch and IRT
14.00- 14.30	Karl Bang Christensen	Introduction to the exam
14.45- 16.30		Exercises	Free time to work on the exam in groups
16.45- 17.00	Karl Bang Christensen	Q&A	Questions, also about exam, are welcome

Data analysis summary

biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/data-analysis-summary-day-1.html

Exercise data

EARS.docx

EARS.Rdata

Material:

COSMIN checklist link - (cite three references on p.8 in the document if you use it)
Acronyms
Svetina et al (2020). Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 27(1), 111–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2019.1602776
biostat.ku.dk/PROMS/CFA-example-using-SPADI-data.html

CSS map:

7.0.01 is in building 7.

The exam:

R data set

Exam questions

e-mail your solution to course secretary Susanne Kragskov Laupstad

skl@sund.ku.dk no later than May 20, 2025

(two weeks after the last day on the course).

Course description: