Diabetes Distress Scale.

DDS17

What it measures

Diabetes-specific emotional distress across four sources: emotional burden, physician-related distress, regimen-related distress, interpersonal distress.

Length and format

17 (2-item DDS2 screener and 5-item DDS5 short forms). 6-pt Likert (not a problem - a very serious problem) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

~30+ languages incl. ES, DE, NL, DA, SV, ZH, JA, AR, FA, TR

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

open with attribution

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Reference

Polonsky, W. H., Fisher, L., Earles, J., Dudl, R. J., Lees, J., Mullan, J., & Jackson, R. A. (2005). Assessing psychosocial distress in diabetes: Development of the Diabetes Distress Scale. Diabetes Care, 28(3), 626-631.