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The health and suffering scale: Item reduction, reliability and validity among women undergoing rehabilitation for exhaustion and long-lasting pain.
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- Validation and psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the Quality-of-Life Scale (QOLS) with a sample of general and special education teachers.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The health and suffering scale: Item reduction, reliability and validity among women undergoing rehabilitation for exhaustion and long-lasting pain.Nursing open · 2022Article
- Health and suffering are associated with social support: a cross-sectional study of women and mothers with exhaustion and pain.BMC women's health · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimTo investigate the necessity of an item reduction and to evaluate estimates of dimensionality, reliability and validity of the Health and Suffering Scale among two groups of women, one undergoing rehabilitation for exhaustion and long-lasting pain and one reference group.
designPsychometric evaluation of the scale using cross-sectional data.
methodThe Health and Suffering Scale is a self-report scale which measures perceived suffering in relation to health on a semantic visual analogue scale. Classical and modern test theory were applied for item reduction and to explore estimates of reliability and validity.
resultsThe Health and Suffering Scale was found to be unidimensional, nine of originally twenty items were part of a consistent factor structure and hierarchical order. These items were internally consistent, discriminated between patients and healthy respondents, and had an excellent level of separation of individuals experiencing various levels of health and suffering. Re-test reliability estimates were moderate.
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