PROMIS Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities
What It Measures
The PROMIS Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities is a standardized self-report instrument developed under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) PROMIS initiative to evaluate perceived capability to carry out usual social roles and activities: household work, family and peer relationships, leisure, and routine responsibilities. Items are phrased as perceived limitations and reverse-scored, so higher scores indicate greater ability to participate.
The 35-item bank supports short forms of 4, 6, or 8 items as well as a computer adaptive test (CAT), with results reported on a population-normed T-score metric centered at 50. It serves as a shared outcome metric across acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and telehealth, including oncology and other chronic-condition caseloads.
PROMIS Global Health-10 is officially listed in the HealthMeasures library as the PROMIS Short Form v2.0 – Ability to Participate in Social Roles and Activities 4a (additional versions 6a, and 8a exist)
Additional Notes
Learn More: Read our overview on PROMIS Measures for Clinicians.
Licensing Notes: PROMIS® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. PROMIS instruments are publicly available through HealthMeasures without licensing or royalty fees for individual clinical and educational use. However, integrating these tools into an electronic platform or EHR requires HealthMeasures Electronic Administration Permission (HEAP) to ensure digital formatting and scoring validity.
