Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire.

BMQ

What it measures

Beliefs about prescribed medication: Specific-Necessity, Specific-Concerns; and general beliefs (General-Overuse, General-Harm)

Length and format

BMQ-Specific 10 (+ General 8) = 18. 5-point agreement (strongly disagree to strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many languages (widely validated)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Horne, R., Weinman, J., & Hankins, M. (1999). The Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire: the development and evaluation of a new method for assessing the cognitive representation of medication. Psychology & Health, 14(1), 1-24.