ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Medical outcomes study social support survey (MOS-SSS) in patients with chronic disease: A psychometric assessment.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07275892 (Pilot Feasibility Trial of a Peer Support Program for Trauma Survivors), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers.
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Pilot Feasibility Trial of a Peer Support Program for Trauma Survivors
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Exploring the factors associated with diabetes and hypertension complications among refugees living in Egypt.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the MOS social support survey among caregivers of patients with advanced illness receiving palliative care.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Dynamic analysis of the relationship between systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity and psychosocial support.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Social support in low-income women with Fibromyalgia Syndrome from a sub-urban and peri-urban areas of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain): a mixed method study.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2023Article
- A large clinical trial to improve well-being during the transition to college using wearables: The lived experiences measured using rings study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
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Abstract
Purpose: Currently, information on the psychometric properties of the Medical outcomes study-social support survey (MOS-SSS) for patients with chronic disease in primary health care, suggests problems in the dimensionality, specifically predominant unidimensionality in a multidimensional measure. The aim of this study was to determine the internal structure (dimensionality, measurement invariance and reliability) and association with other variables. Methods: A total of 470 patients with chronic disease from a Family Medicine Unit at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS, with a mean age of 51.51 years were included. Participants responded to the Questionnaire of Sociodemographic Variables (Q-SV), SF-36 Health-Related Quality of Life Scale-version 1.1, and MOS-SSS. Results: Non-parametric (Mokken scaling analysis) and parametric (confirmatory factor analysis) analyses indicated unidimensionality, and three-factor model was not representative. A new 8-item version (MOS-S) was developed, where measurement invariance, equivalence with the long version, reliability, and relationship with the SF-36 were satisfactory. Conclusion: The MOS-SSS scale is unidimensional, and the shortened version yields valid and reliable scores for measuring social support in patients with chronic disease at the primary health care.
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