Somatic Symptom Scale-8.

SSS-8

What it measures

Brief somatic symptom burden (gastrointestinal, pain, fatigue, cardiopulmonary)

Length and format

8 items. 5-point (0 not at all - 4 very much), past 7 days; total 0-32 (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many incl. DE, EL, ZH, RU, KO, JA, PT-BR; growing international validation

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Gierk, B., et al. (2014). The Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8): a brief measure of somatic symptom burden. JAMA Internal Medicine, 174(3), 399-407.