Information about transforming PROMIS pediatric v2.0 scores to the PROMIS adult metric and vice versa for Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, Anger, Mobility, Upper Extremity, Fatigue, and Pain Interference is available on the Linking Measures page at www.healthmeasures.net/score-and-interpr...ods/linking-measures.

In 2018, Reeve and colleagues published linking tables for pediatric v2.0 and adult physical health measures in Quality of Life Research.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30539361

There have been some efforts to link scores on PROMIS pediatric v2.0 measures with PROMIS adult measures. Bryce Reeve and colleagues published results in emotional distress (reference below). The Peds Perceived Cognitive Function measure (a measure developed prior to PROMIS Pediatric Cognitive Function) is also linked to adult Cognitive Function in PROMIS and Neuro-QoL.


Reeve, B. B., Thissen, D., DeWalt, D. A., Huang, I. C., Liu, Y., Magnus, B., Quinn, H., Gross, H. E., Kisala, P. A., Ni, P., Haley, S., Mulcahey, M. J., Charlifue, S., Hanks, R. A., Slavin, M., Jette, A., & Tulsky, D. S. (2016). Linkage between the PROMIS® pediatric and adult emotional distress measures. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 25(4), 823–833. doi.org/10.1007/s11136-015-1143-z

Contact HealthMeasures at help@healthmeasures.net if you are interested in developing additional linking tables.

We don’t have data yet (as of August 2015) on how the pediatric instruments perform in an 18-21 year-old age group. You could use the pediatric profile for this age group and note that it hasn’t been tested in this group yet. Alternately, you could administer an adult instrument. Note that the scores on adult measures are independent from scores on pediatric measures. You should not group them together for analyses (e.g., a T=40 on a ped measure does not equal T=40 on an adult measure.