Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Information Project (COOP) – Adolescent Version

Generic measure

Measure domains: Physical fitness, emotional feelings, school work, social support, family communication, health habits

Summary of development:  The Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Information Project (COOP Project) was established in the 1980’s. It was a collaboration of public healthcare policy makers, physicians, and medical school faculty from Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, along with faculty at Dartmouth Medical School. The goal was to find ways to measure HRQoL in physicians’ offices (Nelson et al 1981a; Nelson et al 1981b). The measure was originally used in adult and geriatric populations. In 1994, Wasson created a version of the COOP measure for adolescents based on previous versions for adults.  Here we only include testing of the adolescent version but there is other testing of the adult version in the literature.

Wasson, John W., et al. "A short survey for assessing health and social problems of adolescents." Journal of Family Practice, vol. 38, no. 5, May 1994, pp. 489+.

Additional information

PQL Condition

Generic

Number of Items

9

Time Frame/Recall Period

Past 4 weeks

Overall Score

Yes

Sub scores/Subscales

Physical fitness, emotional feelings, school work, social support, family communication, health habits

Ages

12-20

Respondent

Parent Proxy, Self

Languages

Chinese, English, French, Others, Spanish

Development Used Experts

Wasson 1994, Wasson 1995

Development Used Patient

Wasson 1994, Wasson 1995

Test-Retest Reliability

Wasson 1994

Licensing

Yes (Copyright © Trustees of Dartmouth College, COOP Project, 2009)

Fees

Yes ($15)